Pulmonary edema

Alternative names:

lung water

Symptoms:

• shortness of breath, severe difficult breathing
• feeling of "air hunger" or "drowning"
• "grunting" sounds with breathing
• rales
• wheezing
• anxiety
• restlessness
• cough
• excessive sweating
• pale skin

Additional symptoms that may be associated with this disease:

• nasal flaring
• coughing up blood
• breathing, absent temporarily

Signs and tests:

Listening to the chest with a stethoscope (auscultation) may show crackles in the lungs or abnormal heart sounds.

• A chest X-ray may show fluid in the lung space.
• Occasionally, a chest CT scan or chest MRI scan may be performed in addition to a chest X-ray.