Increased hydrostatic pressure leading to pulmonary edema may result from many causes, including excessive intravascular volume administration, pulmonary venous outflow obstruction (eg, mitral stenosis or left atrial [LA] myxoma), and LV failure secondary to systolic or diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle.

What does increase hydrostatic pressure mean?

Increased capillary hydrostatic pressure (as occurs when venous pressures become elevated by gravitational forces, volume expanded states, in heart failure or with venous obstruction) Decreased plasma oncotic pressure (as occurs with hypoproteinemia)

What factors affect hydrostatic pressure?

Hydrostatic pressure refers to the pressure exerted by a fluid (gas or liquid) at any point in space within that fluid, assuming that the fluid is incompressible and at rest. Pressure within a liquid depends only on the density of the liquid, the acceleration due to gravity, and the depth within the liquid.