title: [Bronchial artery embolization with vascular ocluder device in a patient with hemoptysis].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Hemoptysis is a sign that can be secondary to various clinical entities. Depending on the amount of bleeding, it may even endanger the patient's life. The presence of a dilated and tortuous bronchial artery may explain the hemoptysis, whose treatment consists in closing the vessel. Our objective is to demonstrate the percutaneous closure of a disrupt of the bronchial artery which causes hemoptysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 49-years old woman with mild hemoptysis and the presence of an abnormal bronchial artery bleeding that underwent percutaneous closure device plug. The device was implanted without complications and it was not observed passage of dye into the bronchial artery occluded through the pigtail catheter angiography control. The patient had no further episodes of hemoptysis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  pulmonary arteriovenous malformations can be treated successfully by the percutaneous route.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Hemodinamia y Electrofisiología, Centro Médico Nacional 20 de Noviembre, Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado, Distrito Federal, México. avargascruz@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vargas-Cruz
authors.forename: Delia de los A
authors.initials: Dde L
authors.lastname: López-Palomo
authors.forename: Rogelio
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Robledo-Nolasco
mesh_terms: D001981:Bronchial Arteries; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged