Etiology of Hemoptysis Occurring after Adequate Antituberculous Chemotheapy |
In Onk Kim, Kyung Ho Kang, Se Hwa Yoo |
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea |
치유 판정 결핵환자에서 발생한 각혈의 원인론 |
김인옥, 강경호, 유세화 |
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Abstract |
Etiology of hemoptysis in patients with healed pulmonary tuberculosis is variable. We performed bronchoscopy, bronchography and bacteriological studies of bronchial aspirates in 16 patients 、v ith
hemoptysis which developed after adequate antituberculous chemotherapy to evaluate the etiology of hemoptysis. The results were as follows;
1) 1n 16 cases, the etiology of hemoptysis occurred after adequate antituberculous chemotherapy were active pulmonary tuberculosis (4 cases), bronchiectasis (8 cases), bronchitis (3 cases), aspergilloma (1 case).
2) Hemoptysis due to bronchiectasis occurred in relatively old age (50th and 60th decade).
3) 1nterval from antituberculous chemotherapy to hemoptysis was 2.4 years in active pulmonary tuberculosis and 14.5 years in bronchiectasis.
4) Simple chest x.ray examinations did not reliably differentiated active disease from inactive
pulmonary tuberculosis.
1n conculusion, etiology of hemoptysis after adequate chemotherapy is variable. Microbiological studies are essential to diagnose active cases and bronchoscopy and bronchography are useful in some cases. |
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