Potential complications of preeclampsia include pulmonary edema, which is typically caused by heart failure but also can be caused by lung inflammation. Pulmonary edema can lead to respiratory failure. Researchers performed both cardiac and lung ultrasounds before and after delivery in 20 women with severe preeclampsia.
According to the research, five of the 20 women had pulmonary edema prior to delivery according to lung ultrasound, while four had the condition according to the cardiac ultrasound. The lung ultrasound identified a patient with non-cardiac pulmonary edema, which the cardiac ultrasound did not detect.
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