Atypical negative pressure pulmonary edema with myocardial injury post-appendectomy: A case report
This case highlights that NPPE can present with occult myocardial injury without respiratory signs, necessitating serial cardiac biomarker monitoring in hemodynamically unstable patients. The underlying mechanism, while not directly proven here, may involve catecholamine surge, inflammatory cascades, and hypoperfusion.
Authors
- Jianbing Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6440-8281)
- Jingyuan Du (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4702-5630)
- Tanqi Chen
- X. Wang
- Ting He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6171-8225)
- Qi Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1309-7054)
- Gebu Aer
- ShiWu Wuer
Institutions
- University of Nottingham Ningbo China (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Medicine
- Published
- 2026-01-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000046931
- Primary Topic
- Restraint-Related Deaths
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00