Neurogenic pulmonary edema (NPE) is a well-known entity, occurs after acute severe insult to the central nervous system. It has been described in relation to different clinical scenario. However, NPE has rarely been mentioned after endovascular coiling of intracranial aneurysms.

In this recently published article of mine along with my anesthsia colleagues, the clinical course of a patient who developed NPE after aneurysmal rupture during endovascular surgery has been reported. This case highlights the predisposition of minimally invasive procedures like endovascular coiling to life-threatening complications such as NPE.

However, we must know that such cases occur once a blue moon and are more of a tool of nature to bring down to earth the high-flying physicians.
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