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. 1994 Oct;49(10):1038–1040. doi: 10.1136/thx.49.10.1038

Delayed resolution of pulmonary oedema after cocaine/heroin abuse.

P G Raijmakers 1, A B Groeneveld 1, M C de Groot 1, G J Teule 1, L G Thijs 1
PMCID: PMC475247  PMID: 7974302

Abstract

Pulmonary oedema lasting six days occurred in a 68 year old man after sniffing cocaine. He also had evidence of parenteral self-administration of heroin. Pulmonary microvascular filtration pressure and permeability were normal. Delayed resolution of the pulmonary oedema may have been caused by a cocaine-induced impairment of sodium and thus fluid transport across alveolar epithelium. Recognition may be important, since lowering filtration pressure with diuretics may not hasten resolution of oedema.

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