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pulmonary edema
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pulmonary edema [′pu̇l·mə‚ner·ē i′dē·mə]
(medicine)
An effusion of fluid into the alveoli and interstitial spaces of the lungs.


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It was later revealed the 49-year-old had died of a lung edema which caused a respiratory and cardiac arrest.
More investigations are necessary to clarify the mechanisms of the final circulatory failure, lung edema, and rapid death of the swans.
Previous studies have shown that avian viruses preferentially recognize [alpha]-2,3 linkage (SA[alpha]2,3Gal) and bind to type II alveolar cells, which are abundant in the lower respiratory tract of mammals (11,12); these findings support our observations of severe pneumonia with lung edema in the infected dog (Figure 1).
 
 
 
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