hemoptysis/inflammation

OBJECTIVE Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) are major mediators of angiogenesis and are induced by tissue inflammation and hypoxia. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether serum VEGF and Ang-2 are associated with the presence of hemoptysis and the

A 72-year-old woman was admitted to the intensive care unit with a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome. An aneurysm in the aortic arch was detected in the radiologic investigations. The aortic arch was replaced with a Dacron graft with the patient under total circulatory arrest. A pathology

An 84-year-old-man was admitted to the Department of Neurosurgery for a sudden episode of fainting. Brain computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated no fresh lesions. Anorexia, fever and elevation of C-reactive protein and creatine phosphokinase were observed, and the patient

BACKGROUND Pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (PIMT) is a rare disease in China and its incidence is much lower than that of tuberculosis. PIMT accounts for only 0.04-1.2% of all lung tumors. PIMT can occurs in any age and nearly every part of the body. The clinical symptoms and

The patient was a 53-year-old man whose chief complaint was a dry cough and hemoptysis. Chest X-ray films and computed tomographic scans revealed a hazy shadow with unclear margins in the left middle lobe. A diagnosis of inflammatory pseudotumor was made because transbronchial lung biopsy specimens

Inflammatory pseudotumor (also called plasma cell granuloma, histiocytoma and x-anthofibroma) is a benign, slow growing lesion which may present with cough, dyspnea, hemoptysis and unresolving pneumonia or can be discovered radiographically as a localised lesion. It has been reported in individuals

BACKGROUND Bronchial artery aneurysm (BAA) is a rare condition with a reported prevalence of less than 1% of all selective bronchial arterial angiograms. Despite its low incidence, BAA represents a potential cause of hemoptysis. METHODS We describe the case of a 63-year-old man suffering from

UNASSIGNED Hemoptysis is an important symptom which causes a major concern, and warrants immediate diagnostic attention. The authors compared a group of patients with pediatric pulmonary hemorrhage with pediatric patients diagnosed with extrapulmonary bleeding focusing on differences in etiology,

An emergency thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) with zone 2 landing without revascularization of the left subclavian artery was performed due to the impending rupture of a distal arch aneurysm in an old patient presenting hemoptysis. Two months later, the patient had recurrent massive

A 76-year-old man, with a history of pneumoconiosis, developed massive hemoptysis after suction through endotracheal tube. Emergent bronchial artery angiography revealed that rupture of an aneurysm was the suspected culprit and coil embolization was performed. However, the bleeding persisted and he

The hypervascularization of the bronquial wall, secondary to chronic bronchopulmonary inflammation is a bleeding etiology in smokers, but insufficient to explain certain massive recurrent cases. We report a case of a woman with a smoking history who presented a recurrent and massive hemoptysis. A

A 69-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of massive hemoptysis. Bronchial arteriography showed no abnormal findings. Bronchoscopic findings revealed a small, reddish elevated lesion on the posterior surface of the left upper lobe bronchus. Since the patient developed massive hemoptysis

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is a renal inflammatory process associated with chronic obstruction and renal calculi. A patient with xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis presented with the acute onset of hemoptysis and a lung mass. At thoracotomy the mass was resected and found to be a renal