heart disease noncardiogenic pulmonary edema 2022-01-19T18:23:15.862Z Planned Obsolescence: this term is a placeholder for a term requested in another ontology. Once the appropriate ontology term is available, this term’s identifier will be obsoleted with a “term replaced by” id of the other term. requires discussion A disease process that results in acute hypoxia secondary to a rapid deterioration in respiratory status.Increased capillary permeability and changes in pressure gradients within the pulmonary capillaries and vasculature are mechanisms for which noncardiogenic pulmonary edema occurs. To differentiate from cardiogenic pulmonary edema, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure is not elevated and remains less than 18 mmHg.