Fulminant neurogenic pulmonary edema developed after spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhage: A case report

Kim, Wonkyo; Kim, Youn Jin; Kim, Dong Yeon; Chung, Rack Kyung; Kim, Chi Hyo

Case Report

Neuroanesthesia

Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 2011;6(3):262-265.
Published online July 30, 2011.

Fulminant neurogenic pulmonary edema developed after spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhage: A case report

Wonkyo Kim, Youn Jin Kim, Dong Yeon Kim, Rack Kyung Chung, Chi Hyo Kim

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. ankyj@ewha.ac.kr

Abstract

Neurogenic pulmonary edema (NPE) was first reported in the literature in 1874. NPE has been described following head injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), intracerebral hemorrhage, seizures, brain stem tumor and cervical spinal cord injury. According to the reports in the literature since 1990, the most frequent underlying factor for NPE has been subarachnoid hemorrhage and aneurysm rupture is following. The incidence of NPE was reported to be 6% in a series of 457 patients with SAH. We present here a case of NPE arising from cerebellar hemorrhage, which is a very rare cause of NPE.

Key Words: Cerebellar hemorrhage, Neurogenic pulmonary edema