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Is pulmonary edema usual in dry drowning cases?
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Not sure: I don't know what you mean by dry drowning since it necessarily requires that the lungs fill with fluid to be termed drowning. Suffocation can occur without the lungs filling with pulmonary edema, but all cases of drowning have fluid in the lungs.
Answered 10/29/2012
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