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Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry · 2008

A 62 year patient was at a dentist’s and suddenly there appeared dyspnea and hacking cough, sense of progressing asphyxia. The patient’s condition is getting progressively worse; number of respiratory movements reached 30/min, acrocyanosis became more evident, there appeared gargling breathing, oral cavity excretes a lot of albuminoid sputum. Psychomotor agitation and arterial hypertension are present. What pathological state is it?

Answer options

  1. An attack of bronchial asthma
  2. Epileptic attack
  3. Pulmonary edema
  4. Anaphylactic shock
  5. Spontaneous pneumothorax
Correct answer

Pulmonary edema

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