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Lung Fluid Accumulation (Oedema Pulmonary)
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Lung Fluid Accumulation (Oedema Pulmonary)
Oedema Pulmonary
British variant of oedema. Dropsy. Increase of water in the lungs.
Tags: water, lungs, edema
Symptom classification
Body areaChest
Body areaLungs
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
19- ABO Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn
- Acute Lung Injury
- Acute Renal Failure
- Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
- Heart Failure
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Hypoalbuminemia
- Malaria
- Mitral Regurgitation
- Odema
- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
- Pleural Effusion
- Pleural Fibrosis
- POEMS Syndrome
- Pulmonary Edema
- Respiratory Chest Infection
- Scleroderma Renal Disease
- Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion (SIADH)
- Toxic Inhalation Injury