Pink foamy phlegm

Introduction The coughed clams are pink foamy. Usually seen in left heart failure, pulmonary congestion, pulmonary congestion (pulmonary congestion) refers to blood deposition in the local blood vessels of the lungs, usually caused by left heart failure, increased pressure in the left heart chamber, obstructing pulmonary venous return, causing pulmonary congestion. When the lungs are congested, the lung volume increases and is dark red, and the cut surface flows out of the foamy red bloody liquid. Patients with pulmonary congestion have clinical manifestations of shortness of breath, hypoxia, cyanosis, coughing up a large amount of serous pink foam sputum during coughing, and acute pulmonary edema.

Cause

The pink foamy sputum is caused by the penetration of fluid from the capillaries into the pulmonary interstitium or alveoli. Clinically common pulmonary edema is cardiogenic pulmonary edema and renal pulmonary edema. Usually seen in left heart failure.

Pulmonary congestion (pulmonary congestion) refers to the accumulation of blood in the local blood vessels of the lungs, usually caused by left heart failure, increased pressure in the left heart chamber, obstructing pulmonary venous return, causing pulmonary congestion. It is dark red, and the cut surface flows out of foamy red bloody liquid. Patients with pulmonary congestion show clinical manifestations of shortness of breath, hypoxia, cyanosis, coughing up a large amount of serous pink foam sputum during coughing, and acute pulmonary edema.

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Caused by the penetration of fluid from the capillaries into the pulmonary interstitial or alveolar. Clinically common pulmonary edema is cardiogenic pulmonary edema and renal pulmonary edema.

According to the history, symptoms, physical examination and X-ray findings, pulmonary edema can be clearly diagnosed, but obvious X-ray changes can occur when the lung water content increases by more than 30%. CT and MRI can be used to help early stage if necessary. Diagnosis and differential diagnosis. Thermal conduction dilution method and plasma colloid osmotic pressure pulmonary capillary wedge pressure gradient can be used to calculate the extravascular water content of the lungs and to determine the presence or absence of pulmonary edema, but the pulmonary catheter should be indwelled for traumatic examination. When the lung perfusion scan is performed with 99mTc human hemoglobin microcapsules or 113mIn transferrin, if the vascular permeability is increased, it can accumulate in the pulmonary interstitium, and the permeability-enhancing pulmonary edema is particularly obvious. In addition, cardiogenic and non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema are treated differently, and both should be identified.

Differential diagnosis

Clinically often differentiated from lobar pneumonia.

The lobar pneumonia is mainly caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. The lesion involves a lung tissue above the lung segment, and the acute inflammation is mainly caused by diffuse cellulose exudation in the alveoli. The lesion begins in the local alveoli and spreads rapidly to a segment of the lung or to the entire lobules. Clinically, the onset is rapid, often starting with high fever and aversion to cold, followed by chest pain, cough, cough and rust, difficulty breathing, and signs of lung consolidation and increased white blood cell count in peripheral blood. The course of the disease lasted about a week, the body temperature plummeted and the symptoms disappeared. The disease mostly occurs in young men. Common causes of illness are cold, tired or rain. It belongs to the category of "wind temperature" and "lung sputum" of Chinese medicine.

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