[Clinical aspects and diagnosis of pulmonary edema in pulmonary thromboembolism].

Thirty six patients that died with pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) were retrospectively followed up, whose diagnosis had been made both by the classical instrumental investigations and by angiopulmography and scintigraphy of the lungs. The diagnosis pulmonary edema in PTE was made on the base of the clinical picture, in which the characteristic pink expectoration was absent. ECG was with signs of acute pulmonary heart. The X-ray of the lungs shows, most frequently, right and diffuse interstitial pulmonary edema.