Comment

摘要

Neurogenic pulmonary edema (NPE) may complicate subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) in a significant percentage of patients, approximately 10 % according to the literature and the experience reported in this article. Nonetheless, it is has been shown that NPE occurs in more than 70 % of fatal cases of SAH [1], This can be attributed to the severity of the bleeding, but it is possible and even likely that the relevance of NPE as a direct cause of death is underestimated.