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RECURRENT POSTICTAL PULMONARY EDEMA: A CASE REPORT Shigetaka Anegawa 1,4 , Yoshitaka Doi 2 , Kaichiro Hiroshige 2 , Ryuichiro Torigoe 3 1Department of Neurosurgery Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital 2Department of Internal Medicine, Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital 3Department of Neurosurgery, Kurume University 4Present Address: Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Neuroscience, St. Mary's Hospital pp.327-334
Published Date 1988/4/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406206084
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A 32-year-old woman was examined in the De-partment of Internal Medicine at Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital after a grand mal seizure on December 29, 1985. She had a history of eclampsia 5 years before but had had no evidence of convul-sive seizure. Chest examination revealed rales over the bilateral chest. The cardiac examination revealed no abnormalities. Laboratory data on ad-mission included a total white blood cell count of 13000/mm3. The electrocardiogram also failed to reveal any abnormalities. Analysis of arterial blood with the patient breathing room air revealed a PaO2 of 51.2 mmHg, PaCO2 of 33. 1 mmHg and a pH of 7.426. The chest film showed diffuse bila-teral nodular-appearing alveolar infiltrate and a normal cardiac size. Cardiac function test using Swan-Ganz catherter was performed after 10 hours of onset. However, no abnormalities in pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) were noted. She was treated with Latamoxef and supplementally inspired oxygen. A repeat chest roentgenogram taken 7.5 hours after admission showed marked improve-ment. She was discharged without any residual symptoms and continued as an outpatient under the administration of sodium valporate. However, the drug was discontinued because of the presence fo seizure was under suspicion.

On August 24, 1986, she was readmitted for pul-monary edema after another grand mal seizure. The clinical course was uneventful and was almost the same as the previous episode. She was treated with oxygen only, via nasal catheter.

Acute pulmonary edema manifesting soon after grand mal seizure has been recognized for years and only 19 pieces of literature, 38 cases have previously been reported. Furthermore, our case, presented here, must be the first report from Ja-pan.

Neurogenic pulmonary edema can occure in every disease with acute rise in intracranial pressure (ICP). It has also been reported that the cerebral blood flow during epileptic seizure was almost double and which built up ICP to be 1000 mmH2O. It may be plausible that the increase in ICP during epileptic seizure is enough to cause the pulmonary edema.


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