Pulmonary aspergillosis presenting with recurrent haemoptysis

Sarcoidosis-related pulmonary veno-occlusive disease presenting with recurrent haemoptysis.

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Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Ostrich

Recurrent pulmonary thromboembolism presenting with cardiac arrhythmias.

Pulmonary emboli seldom recur, and when recurrence does occur it is not associated with permanent sequelae unless there is progressive pulmonary arterial hypertension. Five patients with clinical and perfusion lung scan evidence of recurrent pulmonary embolism presented with abnormal cardiac rhythms without evidence of progressive pulmonary hypertension. Twenty-four-hour ambulatory electrocardi...

Intrathoracic schwannoma presenting with massive haemoptysis.

a 65-year-old female had presented with two episodes of massive haemoptysis. she also gave a history of heaviness on the right chest for last one year with out cough, expectoration, chest pain or any other symptom. her past, personal and family history was non-contributory. after admission, the patient was resuscitated. examination revealed dull percussion note on right mid chest wall with dimi...

Intrapulmonary bronchogenic cyst presenting with haemoptysis.

A 36-year-old man presented with haemoptysis and his admission chest radiograph showed a large thin walled cystic lesion with an air-fluid level in the left lower lobe. The pathological diagnosis of the lesion, which was removed by a left lower lobe resection, was an intrapulmonary bronchogenic cyst.