Pulmonary involvement in Behçet's disease (BD) is uncommon; however, it is potentially fatal due to the risk of massive haemoptysis. We describe the case of a 36-year-old male presenting with a 2-month history of worsening dyspnoea, weight loss, haemoptysis, oral ulceration, erythema nodosum and superficial thrombophlebitis. He was diagnosed with pulmonary vasculitis secondary to BD; however, h...

Case 1. (Case 4 in the Volume, as the three first art mere dissections afezo days after entering the hospital.) A man, 34 years of age, was admitted into hospital early in the spring of 1812, apparently in a dying state. Countenance and lips livid and swollen ; eyes red and suffused; breathing excessively difficult; cough with haemoptysis ; great debility and emaciation ; slight oedema of the f...

The pulmonary complications of a 50-metre fall to the water (a form of suicide attempt producing 87% mortality) were studied in 15 survivors. Presenting findings included crackles, haemoptysis, and hypotension. The alveolar-arterial oxygen difference was greater than 150 mmHg (20 kPa) in nine subjects on admission. Ventilatory failure developed in 10 of the patients, including all of those with...

Co-infections or consecutive infections of mucormycosis and aspergillosis are very rare. Additionally, distinguishing between these two is also difficult as both conditions have similar clinical features. We report cases from Tamilnadu, who presented to a tertiary care centre in Puducherry, India 2017 (first case) 2019 (second case).The first case was 70-year-old, non-diabetic male patient with...

Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis (IPH) is a rare condition that usually presents as a triad of haemoptysis, iron deficiency anaemia and pulmonary infiltrates. We report a case of IPH diagnosed in a 7 year old boy who had recurrent hospital admissions with severe chest infections and haemoptysis from his first few months of life. He was found to have microcytic hypochromic anaemia, diffuse in...

This case presentation relates to a 53 year old male, cachectic in appearance, who presented with progressively worsening dyspnoea, cough, intermittent haemoptysis and a history of nasal dryness ongoing over five months. The patient had received multiple courses of oral antibiotics for suspected community acquired pneumonia with no significant improvement. He was referred to our Respiratory Dep...

Haemoptysis after breath-hold diving. A. Boussuges, C. Pinet, P. Thomas, E. Bergmann, JM. Sainty, D. Vervloet. #ERS Journals Ltd 1999. ABSTRACT: Pulmonary oedema has been described in swimmers and self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (Scuba) divers. This study reports three cases of haemoptysis secondary to alveolar haemorrhage in breath-hold divers. Contributory factors, such as haemo...