Severe haemoptysis in a patient with cystic fibrosis was successfully treated on two occasions by bronchial artery embolisation.

1. Division of Pulmonology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected] A 22-year-old woman presented with hemoptysis and dyspnea (respiratory rate, 38 breaths/min; peripheral oxygen saturation, 81%; pro-brain natriuretic peptide, 2,073 ng/L), together with bilateral inspiratory crackles and a diastolic murmur over the apex. Imaging showed multifocal consolid...

We studied the airway gas exchange properties of five inert gases with different blood solubilities in the lungs of anesthetized sheep. Animals were ventilated through a bifurcated endobronchial tube to allow independent ventilation and collection of exhaled gases from each lung. An aortic pouch at the origin of the bronchial artery was created to control perfusion and enable infusion of a solu...

In vivo models of airway inflammation suggest that most protein transudation occurs from bronchial microcirculation. However, due to technical limitations in the isolation and culture of bronchial endothelial cells, most studies of lung vascular permeability have focused on pulmonary endothelium. Thus conditions for culture of sheep bronchial artery endothelial cells (BAEC) and bronchial microv...

To cite: Morcos KHK, Roditi G, Craig S. Thorax Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl2012-202869 HISTORY A 30-year-old man with a 3 day history of increasing breathlessness and frank haemoptysis was suspected of having pulmonary embolism and anticoagulated with heparin. Haemoptysis worsened so anticoagulation was reversed and he was transferred to our inst...

BACKGROUND Hemoptysis is a significant clinical entity with high morbidity and potential mortality. Both medical management (in terms of resuscitation and bronchoscopic interventions) and surgery have severe limitations in these patients population. Bronchial artery embolization (BAE) represents the first-line treatment for hemoptysis. This article discusses clinical analysis, embolization appr...

Here we report the rare case of an intraoperative bronchial artery aneurysm (BAA) rupture. An asymptomatic 52-year-old woman was found to have bilateral, multiple dilated bronchial arteries feeding the BAA that was further connected to the pulmonary artery on computed tomography and angiography. Transcatheter arterial embolization was thought not to be succeed. During a thoracoscopic procedure,...

Bronchial artery aneurysm (BAA) is a rare but potentially life-threatening clinical entity. Patients with multiple BAAs and multiple aneurysmal dilations are even rarer. In this case report, we will investigate a case of multiple BAAs and multiple aneurysmal dilations arising from 2 right bronchial artery branches presenting with hemoptysis. The patient was successfully treated with transcathet...