An 80-year-old patient underwent abdominal surgery (part of the small intestine was resected due to ischemia). Dyspnea developed on the 3rd day after extubation. Tachypnea with RR of about 30/minute. Physiological blood gas exchange. No antibiotic therapy. Lab tests revealed decreasing levels of inflammatory markers. No metabolic acidosis was present.
We started looking for the cause of dyspnea.
Lung ultrasonography:
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