•Almost all previous attempts to study the bronchial circulation have been limited to measurements of blood flow in the bronchial arteries and bronchopulmonary anastomoses. There have been two studies devoted to estimations of blood flow in the bronchial veins of the normal dog. In 1931, Berry and Daly perfused in dogs either the posterior bronchial artery of one lung or the entire aortic segme...

INTRODUCTION Bronchial arteries originate from the descending aorta at the level of the T5-T6 vertebrae following an intrapulmonary course along the major bronchi. When bronchial arteries take off from a vessel other than the descending aorta, the anatomy is defined as an anomalous origin of the bronchial artery. CASE PRESENTATION A 3-day-old boy from Kosovo with dextro-transposition of the g...

We present a case of pulmonary artery perforation in a patient who developed a pneumothorax after cardiac surgery. In the process of inserting a chest tube the patient became tachypnoeic, and developed haemoptysis. The trachea was intubated, and right bronchial intubation was performed with persistent bleeding. The pulmonary artery catheter was gently withdrawn and the balloon inflated, with ce...

Background Acute massive hemoptysis is a life-threatening condition. Traditionally, bronchial artery embolization and lung resection are the treatment options. But there is high recurrence rate after bronchial artery embolization and some patients are not suitable for or can’t tolerate lung resection. We develop thoracoscopic bronchial artery ligation as another treatment option. This is the fi...

Bronchial artery aneurysm is a very rare condition. Its rupture can cause a life threatening hemorrhage. We report a case of a 50-year-old patient with a ruptured bronchial artery aneurysm who presented with epigastric pain. It is the first published case with such signs of a rupture of a bronchial artery aneurysm. CT scan confirmed the diagnosis. The patient was treated with endovascular embol...

A 54-year-old nonsmoker female developed atelectasis of the anterior basal segment of the right lower lobe. A non-pulsating endobronchial tumor was observed bronchoscopically obstructing the right basal bronchus. The tumor was confirmed on arteriography to be a saccular aneurysm of the right bronchial artery. The aneurysm was treated with bronchial artery embolization. Bronchial artery aneurysm...

OBJECTIVE To assess the modern morbidity of hemoptysis and the contribution of therapeutic bronchial artery embolization to its management. METHODS Medical record review of patients admitted for the treatment of hemoptysis from January 1991 to November 1995 and of patients who had therapeutic bronchial artery embolization from June 1986 to August 1995. Hemoptysis was labeled major or minor. ...

The lymphatic vessels of the lung provide an important route for clearance of interstitial edema fluid filtered from pulmonary blood vessels. However, the importance of lung lymphatics for the removal of airway liquid filtered from the systemic circulation of the lung has not been demonstrated. We studied the contribution of the bronchial vasculature to lung lymph flow in anesthetized, ventilat...