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IPLab:Lab 4:Pulmonary Congestion and Edema

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Clinical Summary
== Clinical Summary ==
This 6769-year-old male was hospitalized because with well-controlled Type II diabetes mellitus presented with upper abdominal and lower chest pain of four hours duration and accompanied by shortness of extensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseasebreath and diaphoresis. Following surgery, during which diseased portions of the femoral arteries were bypassed, he developed massive An electrocardiogram revealed multiple premature ventricular contractions (PVCs). The hospital course was characterized by recurrent pulmonary embolization edema and expiredoliguria. The terminal event was cardiac arrest.
At autopsy, thrombi Significant findings at postmortem examination were found in the femoral old and recent myocardial infarctions and evidence of congestive heart failure. The right and iliac veinsleft lungs weighed 950 grams and 750 grams, as well as in the larger pulmonary arteriesrespectively, and were reddish-brown.
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