Life threatening haemoptysis controlled by laser photocoagulation.

Life threatening haemoptysis controlled by laser photocoagulation.

Management of life-threatening haemoptysis.

Massive haemoptysis represents a major medical emergency that is associated with a high mortality. Here we present two cases of life-threatening haemoptysis, the first caused by rupture of an aortic aneurysm into the lung in a 37-yr-old woman with polyarteritis nodosa and the second caused by massive bleeding from an angiectatic vascular malformation in the right main bronchus in a 21-yr-old wo...

Topical treatment of life threatening haemoptysis from aspergillomas.

BACKGROUND The efficacy of topical treatment of 12 episodes of severe life threatening haemoptysis from a pulmonary aspergilloma in 11 patients is reviewed. METHODS A retrospective review was performed on five white and six African-American patients of mean age 49 years. The underlying diseases were bronchiectasis, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, or histoplasmosis. The patients were prospectively ...

Temperature-controlled retinal photocoagulation--a step toward automated laser treatment.

PURPOSE Retinal laser photocoagulation carries the risk of overtreatment due to effect variation of identically applied lesions. The degree of coagulation depends on the induced temperature increase and on exposure time. We introduce temperature controlled photocoagulation (TCP), which uses optoacoustics to determine individually exposure times necessary to create reproducible lesions. METHOD...

Life-threatening haemoptysis due to tracheal varices secondary to pulmonary vein obstruction.

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...