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. 1980 Oct;26:1343–1344.

Pulmonary Edema

Paul H Tanser
PMCID: PMC2383754  PMID: 21293700

Abstract

The physician who deals with pulmonary edema from a pathophysiologic basis will seldom make a diagnostic or therapeutic error. Recent additions to preload and afterload therapy have greatly helped in the emergency and ambulatory treatment of pulmonary edema due to left heart failure. Careful follow-up and patient self-monitoring are the most effective means of reducing hospitalization of chronic heart failure patients.

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