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Pathophysiology

3. Increase in vascular damage (eg, trauma, neoplastic disease, inflammatory

process, infection, pulmonary infarction, drug hypersensitivity, uraemia,

pancreatitis)

4. Increase in capillary hydrostatic pressure in the systemic and/or pulmonary

circulation (eg, congestive heart failure, superior vena caval syndrome)

5. Reduction in pleural space pressure; lung failure to expand (eg, extensive

atelectasis, mesothelioma)