Case Presentation: An 80 year-old man presented with one day of confusion, worsened cough, and subjective fevers. He had a productive cough since emigrating from Mexico six months ago, but no complaints of dyspnea. He had a history of diabetes and stable angina for the past year. On presentation, he was tachycardic with a temperature [...]

Case Presentation: A 54-year-old never-smoker female with hypothyroidism and rheumatoid arthritis on etanercept presented with intermittent hemoptysis. Three days prior, she reported coughing ~100mL of frank blood and clots (Figure 1) over the course of 24 hours, with smaller volumes over the next two days (~50 mL total). She recounted a similar episode of hemoptysis [...]

Case Presentation: A 69 year old male with COPD and a 6-year history of a slowly progressing left upper lobe cavitary mass presented to our hospital with new hemoptysis. CT angiogram showed the cavitary mass infiltrating into an artery, as well as a pseudoaneurysm in the left lower lobe consistent with mycobacterial invasion of the [...]

Case Presentation: A 62-year-old woman presented with a three week history of worsening shortness of breath. She endorsed a dry non-productive cough of several days without fever, chills, or other symptoms. Review of systems was negative for hemoptysis. Past medical history includes HFpEF, hypertension, and chronic atrial fibrillation on apixiban. On presentation, her temperature was [...]

Case Presentation: A 65 year-old Mexican man had presented to an outside hospital with 2 weeks of cough and dyspnea and was found to have a new apical pulmonary infiltrate. He underwent lung biopsy and was treated for pneumonia for several days without resolution of his symptoms. He was transferred to our medicine service and [...]

Case Presentation: A 36 year old man with a history of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) of unclear etiology was admitted with a three-week history of progressively worsening fatigue, weakness and lightheadedness. Further questioning revealed a 12 month history of hemoptysis which he described as productive of about a half-dollar amount of blood every morning. He [...]

Case Presentation: A 65-year-old obese woman with type II diabetes mellitus presented with a 7-day history of cough and hemoptysis described as streaks of blood during the first two days, and as half a cup to a cup of bright red blood with clots thereafter. On arrival to the emergency room she was hemodynamically stable, [...]

Case Presentation: A 17-year-old female with a past medical history of allergic rhinitis presents as transfer from an outside hospital for hemoptysis and chest pain. She reports three episodes of ¼ cup worth of bright red blood occurring within the last six months. No reported triggers and no history of trauma, smoking, vaping, lung or [...]

Case Presentation: A 70 year old female with past medical history of COPD on 2 liters oxygen at baseline presented with acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to COPD exacerbation secondary to metapneumovirus infection. Her hospitalization was prolonged from Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia which required prolonged intubation, antibiotics and finally a tracheostomy. She was noted [...]