Treatment of massive hemoptysis by combined occlusion of pulmonary and bronchial arteries.
Massive, life-threatening hemoptysis occurred in a patient with left upper lobe bronchiectasis secondary to old tuberculosis. Selective left bronchial arteriography showed extravasation of contrast medium in the bronchiectatic area. A marked decrease in hemoptysis occurred after selective left bronchial arterial embolization. Complete cessation of bleeding followed the inflation of a Swan-Ganz balloon catheter that had been placed in the left main pulmonary artery.
D000368:Aged; D001981:Bronchial Arteries; D002404:Catheterization; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006489:Hemostatic Techniques; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications