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2 unusual facts about Edema


Hemigrammus erythrozonus

Although large quantities of fry will incubate in waters of low hardness, most of the fry may soon contract non-infectious, constitutional dropsy, and die within a short time.

Water retention

:*Edema, an abnormal accumulation of fluid beneath the skin, or in one or more cavities of the body


Ernst-Günther Schenck

Prior to adoption, it was tested on 370 prisoners in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, some of whom died of hunger edema.

Facundo Arana

He reached the base camp at 5,364 metres (17,598 ft) but the Altitude sickness made him stop climbing for a few days, during his second attempt Arana's illness progressed to high altitude pulmonary HAPE and cerebral HACE edema which led to Arana's emergency evacuation to Kathmandu.

Macular edema

Iluvien, a sustained release intravitreal implant developed by Alimera Sciences, has been approved in Austria, Portugal and the U.K. for the treatment of vision impairment associated with chronic diabetic macular edema (DME) considered insufficiently responsive to available therapies.

Marie Joséphine of Savoy

Marie Joséphine died of an edema at Hartwell House, the English residence of the exiled French royal family.

Meprobamate

An acute cerebral edema caused by a reaction to Equagesic, a combination of aspirin and meprobamate, is believed to have caused the death of Bruce Lee.

SCLS

Capillary leak syndrome a rare medical condition where the number and size of the pores in the capillaries are increased which leads to a leakage of fluid from the blood to the interstitial fluid, resulting in dangerously low blood pressure hypotension, edema and multiple organ failiure due to limited perfusion


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