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Influenza infection linked to severe cardiac complications including pulmonary edema requiring intensive care.
Highlights severe cardiac complications, such as pulmonary edema, that can arise from influenza infection in adults.
Clinicians should consider influenza in unexplained pulmonary edema; case reports leave open broader prevalence and need for prospective studies.
A 57-year-old man was admitted to the coronary intensive care unit with severe pulmonary edema after a 5-day history of influenza-like illness. His medical history included previous tobacco use and a family history of early myocardial infarction. He had received the seasonal influenza vaccine in the
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Jeyanathan et al. (2013) studied this question. Influenza infection can lead to severe cardiac complications, including pulmonary edema requiring intensive care, in adult patients.
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