Hemoptysis


Etiology (from 1997 tertiary hospital series [MEDLINE])


Etiology

Airway Disorders

Pulmonary Parenchymal Disorders

Infection

Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage (DAH) (see Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage)

Other

Pulmonary Vascular Disorders

Pulmonary Trauma

Drug/Toxin

Other

Pseudohemoptysis


Anatomy and Physiology (see also Pulmonary Anatomy)

Lungs Have a Dual Arterial Blood Supply (Insights Imaging, 2020) [MEDLINE]

Pulmonary Arteries

Bronchial Arteries

Other Arteries

Pulmonary Venous Drainage


Diagnosis

Bronchoscopy (see Bronchoscopy)

Chest CT (see Chest Computed Tomography)

Bronchial Artery Angiogram (see Bronchial Artery Angiogram)

Pulmonary Artery Angiogram (see xxxx)

Systemic Artery Angiogram

Diagnostic Yield of Procedures for the Evaluation of Hemoptysis


Clinical

Quantification of Hemoptysis (Eur Respir J, 2008) [MEDLINE]

Quantification of Hemoptysis (Diagn Interv Radiol, 2017) [MEDLINE]


Treatment

Antitussives

Correction of Coagulopathy (If Present) (see Coagulopathy)

Intubation/Airway Protection (see Invasive Mechanical Ventilation)

Bronchoscopic Techniques (see Bronchoscopy)

Bronchial Artery Angiogram with Angioembolization (see Bronchial Artery Angiogram)

History

Rationale for Studying the Bronchial, Pulmonary, and Systemic Arterial Circulations

Technique

Rate of Success

Adverse Effects/Complications

Lobectomy (see Pulmonary Lobectomy)

Specific Management of Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage (DAH) (see Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage)


Prognosis of Hemoptysis

Prognosis by Degree of Hemoptysis

Predictors of Poor Prognosis (Clin Chest Med, 1999) [MEDLINE] (Respiration, 2012) [MEDLINE] (Eur Respir J, 2015) [MEDLINE]


References

Etiology

General

Atrial Fibrillation Ablation (see Atrial Fibrillation)

Broncholithiasis (see xxxx)

Drug/Toxin

Bronchial Carcinoid (see Bronchial Carcinoid)

Bronchial Dieulafoy Lesion (see Bronchial Dieulafoy Lesion)

Cryptogenic Hemoptysis

Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage (DAH) (see Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage)

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (see Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome)

Hamartoma (see xxxx)

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) (see Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation)

Infection

Malignant Triton Tumor

Papillary Thyroid Cancer (see xxxx)

Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) (see Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation)

Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm (Rasmussen Aneurysm) (se ePulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm)

Tracheovascular/Bronchovascular Fistula

Trauma

Anatomy and Physiology

Diagnosis

Clinical

Treatment