Increased circulating VEGF at late times after infection is consistent with vascular remodeling and repair that occurs during recovery phases of other causes of acute pulmonary edema and may coincide with HPS convalescence [32, 33, 36, 39, 44, 46, 48, 49, 52, 64]. The gene discussed is VEGFA; the disease is Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome.