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Table 1 Study characteristics and outcomes of the clinical studies

From: Swimming induced pulmonary oedema in athletes – a systematic review and best evidence synthesis

 

Cases

gender

age

Water temperature

symptoms

outcome

Pons 1995

4

  

18-21 °C

Dyspnoea (2), cough (4), froth (4)

Resolved within 1 h (3), 8 h (1)

Weiler 1995

8

M = 8

18

23 °C

Cough (7), haemoptysis (8)

Resolved (6) recurring (2)

Roeggla 1996

1

F = 1

54

14 °C

Dyspnoea, cough, froth, haemoptysis

Resolved

Lund 2003

3

M = 3

24.3

19 °C

Dyspnoea (3), cough (3), confusion (2), blurred vision (1), froth (1)

Resolved within 48 h

Adir 2004

70

M = 70

18–19

16-22 °C

Dyspnoea (70), cough (67), haemoptysis (39), froth (63),

Resolved within 24 h, recurrence (16)

Biswas 2004

1

M = 1

36

< 22 °C

Dyspnoea, cough, froth

resolved

Shuppak 2004

21

M = 21

18–19

16-18 °C

Dyspnoea, cough, froth, haemoptysis

Resolved (18), recurring (3)

Wilmshurst 2004

1

M = 1

35

13 °C

Dyspnoea, haemoptysis, froth

recurrence

Deady 2006

1

F = 1

38

15 °C

Dyspnoea, haemoptysis

Resolved within 24 h

Beinhart 2007

1

F = 1

54

22 °C

dyspnoea

resolved

Wenger 2007

1

M = 1

43

20 °C

Dyspnoea, froth, chest pain

Resolved within 24 h

Noti 2009

1

F = 1

23

 

Dyspnoea, froth

Resolved within 24 h

Carter 2011

3

F = 3

49.7

15-19 °C

Dyspnoea (3), froth (2), cough (1), haemoptysis (1), chest pain (2)

Resolved (1), Recurrence (1)

Ma 2013

5

M = 5

42.6

< 22 °C

Dyspnoea (3), cough (2), Haempotysis (3), froth (1)

Resolved within 1 week

North 2013

1

F = 1

26

< 22 °C

Dyspnoea, cough, froth

Resolved within 48 h

Casey 2014

2

M = 1, f = 1

57.5

< 22 °C

Dyspnoea (2), froth (1), cough (1), chest pain (1)

Resolved within 24 h

Peacher 2015

41

 

50.1

   

Yamamashi 2015

5

M = 1

41.8

21 °C

Dyspnoea (5), haemoptysis (1), cough (1)

Resolved within 10 days

Beale 2016

4

M = 4

36.7

 

Dyspnoea (4), cough (3), haemoptysis (2), froth (3)

Resolved (4), recurrence (2)

N = 20

174

M = 165F = 9

 

13-22 °C

Dyspnoea (90), cough (97), froth (89), haemoptysis (58), blurred vision (1), chest pain (3)

Resolved (185), recurrence (25)