Recurrent and fatal haemoptysis caused by an atheromatous abdominal aortic aneurysm.
A 74 year old woman presented with a two month history of recurrent small hemoptyses and died after a subsequent massive haemoptysis. At postmortem examination the source of bleeding was found to be a leaking saccular, atheromatous abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had ruptured through the diaphragm into the lower lobe of the right lung.
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Westminster Hospital, London.
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Villar
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Wiggins
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Corrin
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Evans
D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012008:Recurrence