[Neurogenic pulmonary edema, complication of meningeal hemorrhage: report of 4 cases]

Agressologie. 1990 Jun;31(6):395-403.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Neurogenic pulmonary edema (NPE) observed in 4 patients admitted in Neurosurgical Intensive Care au SAH by ruptured a vascular malformation. This complication is unusual (1.9%) and has been observed in comatose patients. For 3 patients, NEP resorption was rapid, from 12 to 72 hours with a treatment by CCPV with a P.E.E.P. and with restoring the hemodynamical parameter. The drug must be discussed according to eventual deleterous side effects on cardiac output and systemic resistances. The early hemodynamical study argues for an essentially hemodynamical mechanism due to the brutal symphatic discharge created by cerebral lesions and increasing. ICP, more than a toxic lesionnal edema, as the Weidner's study shows it in ultrastructural analysis of sheep lungs.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Blood Gas Analysis
  • Female
  • Glasgow Coma Scale
  • Hemodynamics
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / complications
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging
  • Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / complications
  • Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Pulmonary Edema / etiology*
  • Pulmonary Edema / physiopathology
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / etiology
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / physiopathology
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / complications*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed