Hemoptysis

The hemoptysis is a form of blood cough. The cause of leakage of blood from the vascular system in the lung tissue.

Cough with bloody sputum ( sputum) may, for example, the following underlying diseases: pulmonary embolism, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, congestive heart failure, Eisenmenger reaction, lung cancer, legionellosis, lung plan, Goodpasture's syndrome and Wegener 's granulomatosis. In very rare cases, clotting disorders such as hemophilia cause of blood cough.

If larger quantities of blood coughed, one also speaks of hemoptysis. In many cases, the two terms and hemoptysis hemoptysis but are used interchangeably.

  • Disease symptom in pneumology
Eisenmenger's syndrome Goodpasture syndrome
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