Haemoptysis is a serious symptom with various aetiologies. Our aim was to define the aetiologies, outcomes and associations with lung cancer in the entire population of a high-income country.This retrospective multicentre study was based on the French nationwide hospital medical information database collected over 5 years (2008-2012). We analysed haemoptysis incidence, aetiologies, geographical...

OBJECTIVES Evidence on the safety and long-term efficacy of super selective bronchial artery embolisation (ssBAE) using platinum coils in patients with haemoptysis is insufficient. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the safety and the 3-year postprocedure haemoptysis-free survival rate of de novo elective ssBAE using platinum coils rather than particles for the treatment of haem...

Haemoptysis is usually caused by focal disorders of the airways or lung parenchyma. The most common causes are bronchiectasis, pneumonia, lung malignancies, and tuberculosis. On rare occasions, the haemoptysis may be caused by diffuse alveolar haemorrhage. In this patient, recurrent haemoptysis, iron deficiency anaemia, bilateral parenchymal opacities, and haemosiderin laden macrophages in bron...

REPORT Haemoptysis is rare in children, yet is one of the most frightening manifestations of cardiopulmonary disease. Haemoptysis is defined as coughing up blood, which could be mild, less than 150ml / day, large, between 150 and 400ml / day and massive, more than 400mls / day. Infectious diseases such as tuberculosis is an uncommon but a known cause of haemoptysis in children in developing cou...

Haemoptysis is rarely reported following coitus, and cardiac decompensation has been mostly implicated in the aetiology. We present a 53-year-old Nigerian, known hypertensive diabetic woman with background ischaemic heart disease who presented with postcoital haemoptysis of one-year duration. Echocardiography revealed combined ischaemic and mitral valvular heart disease, probably of rheumatic a...

Organising pneumonia, previously called bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia is a clinicopathological entity of unknown aetiology, which has been reported with increasing frequency. Various modes of presentation have been described such as cough, fever, weight loss and alveolar opacities on chest radiograph. Haemoptysis as primary presenting symptom has only rarely been reported. The a...

Successful treatment of a severe haemoptysis with microcoil embolization in an en block double-lung transplanted patient is described. A 53 year old woman with advanced bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome experienced severe haemoptysis 26 months after an en bloc double-lung transplantation with direct bronchial artery revascularization using the left internal mammary artery. Bronchoscopy showed t...