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Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema during intrabiliary infusion of mono-octanoin
Critical Care Medicine
|July 1, 1986
Abstract:
Mono-octanoin (glycerol-1-mono-octanoate) is a medium-chain diglyceride used to dissolve gallstones. We describe a patient in whom noncardiogenic pulmonary edema developed during intrabiliary infusion of monooctanoin. The temporal sequence suggests that the drug infusion initiated the lung injury.