Neurogenic pulmonary oedema.

A 42-year-old healthy woman was found unresponsive with a peripheral oxygen saturation of 80% after having a thunderclap headache. She had copious pink respiratory secretions. Emergency intubation was performed. Cerebral CT showed subarachnoid haemorrhage from a right internal carotid aneurysm. Thoracic CT revealed extensive bilateral patchy consolidations with air bronchograms, mainly in dependent lung areas (figure 1: coronal plane; figure 2: …