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Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Confirmed by Bronchoalveolar Lavage in a Patient with Hemoptysis after Sildenafil Use for Erectile Dysfunction: Kyoung Min Moon, Sun Young Jung, Min Soo Han, Yongseon Cho, Young Min Rah, Jong Woo Kim; Korean J Crit Care Med. 2015;30(1):31-33. Published online February 28, 2015; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2015.30.1.31

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Abstract PDF: A 81-year-old man was referred for respiratory failure by emergency medical technicians. He admitted at intensive care unit for ventilator treatment. Several hours before admission, he took sildenafil 100 mg for erectile dysfunction without prescription. The episodes of hemoptysis occurred several hours later. Computed tomography revealed multifocal diffuse ground-glass attenuation in both lungs. And the more we performed bronchoalveolar lavage, the more the color of it was turned into red. We treated him with empirical antibiotics and tranexamic acid, and hemoptysis was stopped in one day after admission. But in the 5th admission day, he died from sepsis combined with pneumonia caused by Acinetobacter baumannii abruptly.

Negative Pressure Pulmonary Edema and Hemorrhage after Extubation: A Case Report: Yoon Suk Ra, Chi Hyo Kim, Jong In Han, Dong Yeon Kim; Korean J Crit Care Med. 2010;25(2):98-103.; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2010.25.2.98

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Negative pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) is a rare complication of acute airway obstruction which develops after endotracheal extubation. The proposed mechanism is generation of very low negative pressure during laryngospasm by inspiratory efforts, which leads to alveolar exudation and hemorrhage. The diagnosis of NPPE is confirmed by clinical findings of tachypnea, pink prothy sputum in the endotracheal tube, hypoxemia on arterial blood gas analysis, and distinctive radiologic findings. NPPE is usually self-limited within 48 hours when diagnosed early and treated appropriately. We report three patients who recovered from NPPE without complications.

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