Rare cause of massive haemoptysis in pulmonary tuberculosis: Rasmussen's aneurysm
| Autor: | Rakesh Anandarajan, Anil Kumar Swamy, Sankar Neelakantan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Hemoptysis 31-50 Years Rasmussen's aneurysm Asia Images In… Contrast Media Antituberculous drugs Article 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Diagnosis Differential 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pulmonary tuberculosis medicine Humans Tuberculosis Pulmonary Lung medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General Medicine Indian Sub-Continent Middle Aged medicine.disease Aneurysm respiratory tract diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Bronchoalveolar lavage Sputum Air space Female Radiology medicine.symptom business Chest radiograph Tomography X-Ray Computed 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | BMJ Case Reports |
| ISSN: | 1757-790X |
| Popis: | A woman aged 48 years presented to the accident and emergency department with three episodes of massive haemoptysis of ∼500 mL. On examination, her vitals were stable. She had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis 2 years prior to this episode for which she had taken a complete course of antituberculous drugs for 9 months and was symptom-free and sputum culture-negative at the end of treatment. Her blood routines showed leucocytosis and raised inflammatory markers (ESR). Sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage specimens were smear positive for acid-fast bacilli, thus she was diagnosed to have a relapse with active tuberculosis. Imaging evaluation included a chest radiograph which showed cavitatory lesions with air fluid levels in bilateral lung fields with surrounding air space shadowing (figure 1). A plain multidetector CT (MDCT) was … |
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