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Unilateral high-altitude pulmonary edema in a subject with right pulmonary artery hypoplasia
G Fiorenzano1, V Rastelli, V Greco
1E. Morelli Regional Hospital, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sondalo, Italy.
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is an uncommon type of non-cardiogenic, high-permeability pulmonary edema. The authors describe a case of unilateral, left-sided HAPE that occurred in a man with right pulmonary artery hypoplasia.