OBJECTIVE Laryngotracheal trauma is a rare but clinically important injury. Complications are frequent. Early recognition, accurate evaluation and proper treatment is vital. In order to learn from our past experience and refine our management, we reviewed our cases METHODS Fifteen patients with external laryngotracheal injuries were analyzed retrospectively. The outcome was assessed both in t...

C.V. is a 22-year-old woman, who presented to the emergency room (ER) with shortness of breath, coughing and frank haemoptysis. She had been seen in the ER twice over the previous 3 weeks for similar symptoms, but with only mild blood-tinged sputum. Chest X-ray showed bilateral infiltrates. She was treated with Zithromax and subsequently Biaxin for a presumed pneumonia. There was no history of ...

Forty three years old male from Dhule district of Maharashtra presented to his family doctor in December 2004 with malaise, anorexia, haemoptysis. After baseline x-ray (Figure 1) and blood tests he was started on anti tuberculosis treatment (ATT). Patient kept getting recurrent haemoptysis for which repeated x-ray chest were performed (Figure 2). In January 2006 he got admitted to our hosp i ta...

OBJECTIVE We report a negative experience of fatal haemorrhage during rigid bronchoscopy when an intrabronchial lesion was biopsied. Despite being prepared for and carrying out emergency sternotomy and clamping the lung hilum, the patient died. METHODS We reviewed mainly non-surgical literature for recommendations for the management of catastrophic bleeding at bronchoscopy. RESULTS The lite...

The authors report a novel case of exercise-induced haemoptysis with an unexpected underlying pathology. The report discusses the case and provides a pragmatic overview of the diagnosis and management of the pulmonary vein stenosis.