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What Causes Coughing Up Of Blood?

Have been to a and e with healthy pal today coughing up blood, shadow on lung on X-ray. Previous shadow seen few years ago, diagnosed as latent TB. It s bigger today. Really well other than this. Going to Gp Wednesday for referral into Thorazine dept x to.d possibly to or lung cancer
Mon, 29 Dec 2014
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Thanks for your question on HCM.
Coughing out blood is known as haemoptysis. And it is not a good sign.
Hemoptysis can be seen in many causes, but common ones are
1. Tuberculosis
2. Chronic bronchitis.
3. Malignancy
4. Pneumonia
5. Lung trauma etc.
Since you had tuberculosis in past, I think recurrence of tuberculosis is the cause for your Hemoptysis at present.
So consult pulmonologist and get done chest x ray and sputum AFB to rule out this.
You may need CT THORAX and Bronchoscopy to rule out other causes. So consult pulmonologist and discuss all these.
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What Causes Coughing Up Of Blood?

Thanks for your question on HCM. Coughing out blood is known as haemoptysis. And it is not a good sign. Hemoptysis can be seen in many causes, but common ones are 1. Tuberculosis 2. Chronic bronchitis. 3. Malignancy 4. Pneumonia 5. Lung trauma etc. Since you had tuberculosis in past, I think recurrence of tuberculosis is the cause for your Hemoptysis at present. So consult pulmonologist and get done chest x ray and sputum AFB to rule out this. You may need CT THORAX and Bronchoscopy to rule out other causes. So consult pulmonologist and discuss all these.