Haemoptysis

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Haemoptysis

'Coughing up blood'

Sources of blood

• Upper respiratory tract
  • nose bleed is NOT haeoptysis
• Lower respiratory tract
• GI tract
  • NOT haemoptysis

Causes

Respiratory

• bronchial carcinoma
• TB
• general infection
• pulmonary oedema
• Bronchiectasis
• aspergilloma
• vasculitis
• foreign body
• trauma
• sarcoid
• amyloid
• post-partum haemorrhage

Cardiac

• acute LVF
• mitral stenosis

• bleeding diasthesis
• haemosiderosis

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