Can anyone tell me anything about Pulmonary Hemorrhage?
refers to bleeding from the lung. Treatment of Pulmonary Hemorrhage Alveolar hemorrhage is bleeding from the small vessels of the pulmonary circulation. It is one of many causes of hemoptysis, which can also be caused by infections, neoplasms, foreign bodies, trauma, cardiac disease, or pulmonary vasculitis. In rheumatic diseases, pulmonary hemorrhage can be the primary manifestation of Goodpasture’s syndrome, systemic vasculitides, or SLE. It can be secondary to drug ingestion, uremia, congestive heart failure, infection, embolism, or coagulopathy.[1-6] Travis et al[7] described 34 cases of diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage, reporting 43% of the cases caused by vasculitis, 13% caused by anti-basement membrane antibodies, 13% caused by idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis, 18% caused by pulmonary renal syndrome, and 13% caused by SLE or rheumatoid arthritis. The clinical presentation of a patient with pulmonary hemorrhage is usually hemoptysis and anemia, associated with diffuse or focal patc
