Was pulmonary edema a natural cause of death as in the case of Stephen Gately?
Palma De Majorca – An autopsy on Boyzone singer Stephen Gately revealed that he died due to excess fluid in his lungs, a court spokesperson on the Spanish island of Majorca said on Tuesday. “He died a natural death of acute pulmonary oedema” which had nothing to do with any consumption of alcohol or drugs, said the spokesperson in the Majorcan capital of Palma. A pulmonary oedema can be due to either the failure of the heart to remove fluid from the lungs or direct damage to the lung tissue. Gately, 33, was found dead on Saturday in his apartment in the Majorcan town of Port Andratx while on holiday on the Mediterranean island. News reports said he had been out late the night before. Cowley’s partner Andrew Cowles, whom he married in a civil union in 2006, signed papers on Tuesday morning to allow the body to be transferred out of Spain from a mortuary in the Majorcan town of Calvia, the spokesperson said. Gay Gately joined the Irish pop band Boyzone in 1993 after answering an advert i
Death by acute pulmonary oedema is a combined failure of heart and lung, with the former triggering a build-up of fluid in the latter. The result can be sudden and catastrophic — effectively causing a form of internal suffocation — though it is extremely rare in someone as young as Stephen Gately. The heart pumps blood through the lungs and must function properly for the lungs to work properly. If the heart is functioning inadequately, it can cause pressure on the pulmonary artery running to the lung. When that pressure rises, it causes fluid to leak out of the tiny blood vessels (capillaries) that surround the lung into the air sacs (alveoli) of the lung itself. Normally these sacs are where oxygen moves into the blood and on to the heart and around the body. As blood leaks into the sacs, sufferers become breathless and start coughing up a pink frothy phlegm. he most likely triggers for pulmonary oedema are problems with the rhythm of the heart, or the functioning of the heart muscle
Palma De Majorca – An autopsy on Boyzone singer Stephen Gately revealed that he died due to excess fluid in his lungs, a court spokesperson on the Spanish island of Majorca said on Tuesday. “He died a natural death of acute pulmonary oedema” which had nothing to do with any consumption of alcohol or drugs, said the spokesperson in the Majorcan capital of Palma. A pulmonary oedema can be due to either the failure of the heart to remove fluid from the lungs or direct damage to the lung tissue. Gately, 33, was found dead on Saturday in his apartment in the Majorcan town of Port Andratx while on holiday on the Mediterranean island. News reports said he had been out late the night before. Cowley’s partner Andrew Cowles, whom he married in a civil union in 2006, signed papers on Tuesday morning to allow the body to be transferred out of Spain from a mortuary in the Majorcan town of Calvia, the spokesperson said. Gay Gately joined the Irish pop band Boyzone in 1993 after answering an advert i
