Cardiogenic pulmonary edema

Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a subtype of pulmonary edema where the underlying etiology is due to left ventricular dysfunction.

Causes include:

• left heart failure
  • congestive cardiac failure
• mitral regurgitation
• aortic stenosis
• arrhythmias
• myocardial pathology
  • myocarditis
  • cardiomyopathy