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What is the appropriate cardiac work-up and management for an otherwise healthy individual who has experienced immersion pulmonary edema while scuba diving?

For the first time in my 27-year career, I was asked to consult on a patient in his early 40s with immersion pulmonary edema from scuba diving. &...

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Circulation, 2016-03-08

Swimming-Induced Pulmonary Edema: Pathophysiology and Risk Reduction With Sildenafil.

The Physician and sportsmedicine, 2018 Nov 17

A literature review of immersion pulmonary edema.

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