Diagnosis of swimming induced pulmonary edema – a review The disease of pulmonary edema while swimming (including SIPE for swimming-induced pulmonary EDEMA) has been known for some time and already described in Switzerland at athletes at the Gigathlon in case reports.We have now collected all individual cases described in the literature and examined the diagnosis of the SIPE more precisely. In all cases, significant breathing problems occasionally showed up with bloody ejection.In 73% of cases, hypoxemia was present.In 89% of cases, a lung X-ray image was made, there was a pulmonary edema in about a third of cases. In 81% of cases, there were complete recovery within 48 hours, which is typical of the SIPE.
For athletes and organizers, it is important to know that there is the SIPE and how the diagnosis has to be made. The whole work can be found under https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhys.2017.00652/full