Bleeding pulmonary

Bleeding pulmonary - expectoration of blood (hemopoietic). It is observed in lung cancer, foreign bodies of bronchi, aortic aneurysm, mitral heart defects (stenosis), lung infarction, gangrene of lung, bronchiectasis, bronchial adenoma, tuberculosis, pulmonary localization of endometriosis synchronously with menstruation. The reason is the erosion of the so-called Rasmussen aneurysms formed in the wall of tuberculous caverns and bronchiectasis cavities. When cancer occurs as a result of a violation of the integrity of newly formed vessels of the tumor.

Symptoms, course. Expectoration of blood "full mouth" (hemopoietic) or the appearance of blood veins in sputum (hemophthisis) makes one look for one of the above diseases. Differential diagnostic sign with bleeding from the upper sections of the digestive tract is a light pink color, which always has an alkaline reaction (sample with litmus paper), foamy blood that has not turned up, stands out synchronously with coughing jerks. In all cases, hospitalization is indicated because of the unpredictability of the outcome. Obligatory radiography of chest organs in two projections, with indications computed tomography, sometimes angiography of bronchial arteries. Obligatory bronchoscopy as a diagnostic method and, if necessary, palliative-therapeutic-tamponade bronchus.

The prognosis is caused by the cause of pulmonary hemorrhage.