Following a vehicular accident with blood loss leading to pr…
Following a vehicular accident with blood loss leading to prolonged, severe hypotension, a 30-year-old man is intubated and placed on a mechanical ventilator. He has progressively decreasing oxygen saturations despite increasing his FI02 to 100%. He remains afebrile. He dies 3 days later. At autopsy, the distal lungs show thickened interstitium, and many macrophages and neutrophils. Which of the following would have been observed on X-ray just prior to his death?