What's the difference between haemoptysis and hemoptysis?
Haemoptysis
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Hemoptysis
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(n.) The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.
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(1) Hemoptysis is usually a symptom of cardiopulmonary disease and is generally not in itself associated with death.
(2) In 8 (4.4%) patients, hemoptysis was secondary to bronchial neoplasia and in 6 of them FB contributed with the diagnostic material.
(3) In severe hemoptysis, selective bronchial arteriography with embolization of the bleeding vessel can be a life-saving procedure.
(4) A 16 year old white female presented with paroxysmal cough and hemoptysis of recent onset.
(5) Hemoptysis was life-threatening in 8 patients, severe but not life-threatening in 12, and minimal in 3.
(6) 107 Consecutive patients with rheumatic valvular heart disease (41 males, 66 females, average age 24.2 years) being followed at an Ethiopian cardiology referral clinic were examined and questioned about their experience of hemoptysis.
(7) The classic symptoms and signs of tuberculosis were noted in a significantly higher proportion of the younger group: fever (62 percent versus 31 percent), weight loss (76 percent versus 34 percent), night sweats (48 percent versus 6 percent), sputum production (76 percent versus 48 percent), and hemoptysis (40 percent versus 17 percent) (p less than 0.05).
(8) Indications for therapy included severe dyspnea, hemoptysis, and postobstructive pneumonitis.
(9) The usual reason for operation was hemoptysis--massive or moderate.
(10) Clinically, this disorder should be suspected in a patient who presents with pulmonary hypertension, hemoptysis, a reticulonodular infiltrate on chest radiograph, a lung scan showing inhomogeneously enhanced perfusion (particularly in the lower lobes), and pulmonary angiography showing increased peripheral vascularity corresponding to both the radiographic infiltrate and the areas of enhanced perfusion on lung scan.
(11) The hemoptysis was thought to be due to increased blood flow of the right bronchial artery, which compensated for reduced right pulmonary arterial flow.
(12) We studied the long-term outcome after BAE for life-threatening hemoptysis in patients with CF.
(13) Hemorrhage ceased in the two patients with hemoptysis.
(14) After several months he presented hemoptysis and a moderate pain on his right chest and was treated as an acute bronchitis.
(15) A 63-year-old male, status post-right pneumonectomy, presented with hemoptysis.
(16) Presenting symptoms included dyspnea (52%), wheezing or stridor (44%), cough (41%), hemoptysis (37%), and pneumonia (18%).
(17) We reviewed the charts of 48 consecutive patients who had fiberoptic bronchoscopy performed in the evaluation of hemoptysis with a normal chest roentgenogram.
(18) Once diffuse pulmonary infiltration and massive hemoptysis appear, the prognosis is poor; death from pulmonary exsanguination is likely to occur.
(19) Emergency pulmonary resection for hemoptysis during an episode of massive intrabronchial bleeding requires protection of the contraleteral lung from aspiration of blood.
(20) Plastic double-lumen endobronchial tube was used to maintain the airway in a patient with massive hemoptysis and nonresectable lung cancer.