ALLMedicine™ Hemoptysis Center

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Practice Essentials Glottic cancer is a malignancy of the larynx that involves the true vocal cords and anterior and posterior commissures. Because of its anatomic location, it can have profound effects on the basic vital functions, including brea...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - The burden of hospitalizations and mortality for hemoptysis due to bronchiectasis is not well characterized. The primary outcome of our study was to evaluate in-hospital mortality in patients admitted with hemoptysis and bronchiectasis, as well as...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Practice Essentials Glottic cancer is a malignancy of the larynx that involves the true vocal cords and anterior and posterior commissures. Because of its anatomic location, it can have profound effects on the basic vital functions, including brea...

Nov 30th, 2021 - Hydatid Cyst is a zoonosis caused by Echinococcus granulosis. Pulmonary artery involvement is a rare condition. The aim of this study was to review our experience in the surgical treatment of pulmonary arterial hydatidosis. Data were collected pro...

Nov 29th, 2021 - This study aimed to explore differences in clinical features and prognosis among patients with varied myeloperoxidase (MPO) antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (MPO-AAV) associated lung diseases. Patients with MPO-AAV-associa...

May 7th, 2020 - Hemoptysis, the expectoration of blood, ranges in severity from nonmassive to massive. This publication reviews the literature on the imaging and treatment of hemoptysis. Based on the literature, the imaging recommendations for massive hemoptysis ...

Sep 12th, 2019 - Massive hemoptysis is one of emergency and critical diseases of the respiratory system. The definition of massive hemoptysis has always been different in the literature, which often depends on the quantitative estimation of the amount of hemoptysi...

Aug 3rd, 2010 - Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive genetic disease characterized by dehydration of the airway surface liquid and impaired mucociliary clearance. As a result, individuals with the disease have difficulty clearing pathogens from the lung and experi...

Oct 4th, 2021 - In over 90% of cases, hemoptysis is due to a bronchial or non-bronchial systemic arterial mechanism. Embolization of Bronchial Arteries (EBA) is the main specific treatment but is not easily available. Medical treatment for hemoptysis is not evide...

Aug 3rd, 2021 - Bronchiectasis is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by permanent bronchiectasis, its main clinical symptoms are cough, dyspnea, hemoptysis and recurrent respiratory tract infections. The incidence and prevalence of bronchiectasis have as...

Jul 30th, 2021 - Lung ablative therapies have growing interest in the treatment of early-stage primary lung cancer in surgical high-risk patients and as part of multimodal treatment in patients with large lesions or metastatic malignant disease in the lungs. Endob...

Jul 30th, 2021 - Inhalation aztreonam (AZLI) is an aerosolized formulation of the monobactam antibiotic aztreonam with lysine as a synthetic substance in place of arginine. This substitution was made as arginine, which is in the intravenous (IV) formulation of azt...

Jul 22nd, 2021 - Study Activities: Patients will be randomized to either the standard daily drainage group or the talc instilled via tunneled pleural catheter combined with standard daily drainage group. Patients will complete questionnaires regarding their health...

Oct 8th, 2021 - A patient with worsening chronic cough, shortness of breath, and hemoptysis tested negative for tuberculosis; but a chest computed tomography scan showed an upper left lobe cavitary lesion. A 71-year-old, currently homeless male veteran with a 29.

Oct 7th, 2021 - Disclaimer:  The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the US Public Health Service.  Editor's Note: Th...

Sep 9th, 2021 - Introduction Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a herpes virus that commonly causes infectious mononucleosis (IM) and linked to different hematological conditions. Here we present a case of EBV-triggered Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) with pulmonary inv.

Sep 8th, 2021 - Mark D. Pegram, MD: Interstitial lung disease [ILD] is a diagnosis of exclusion. It’s seen with numerous drugs that we use in breast cancer, such as CDK4/6 inhibitors, everolimus, and trastuzumab deruxtecan. So we are constantly screening for this...

Sep 8th, 2021 - Introduction SMARCA4-deficient thoracic sarcomas are a rare entity, first described in 2015 in a study of 19 patients with a median age of 41 years who presented with large compressive masses with frequent infiltration into surrounding tissues [1].