With Ecmo, treating leptospirosis patients with
pulmonary hemorrhage is now possible.
Pulmonary hemorrhage clinically presents with a rapidly worsening pulmonary function (the speed of the setting depends obviously on the magnitude of the hemorrhage), with hypoxia, hypercarbia, and the need for increased ventilatory parameters.
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Evidence of Plasmapheresis for Leptospirosis Where
Pulmonary Hemorrhage Was Not Either Present or Clearly Mentioned (Table 1).
Frequency and severity of
pulmonary hemorrhage in patients undergoing percutaneous CT-guided transthoracic lung biopsy: single-institution experience of 1175 cases.
When considered individually, a significant relationship existed between mortality and the birth weight, gestation age, Apgar scores at one and five minutes, type of pneumothorax, IVH,
pulmonary hemorrhage, and steroid use [Table 2].
Dual antiplatelet therapy was restarted few days after hemoptysis resolution without evidence of
pulmonary hemorrhage recurrence.
The term GPS refers to the triad of
pulmonary hemorrhage, glomerulonephritis, and anti-GBM antibodies while Goodpasture's disease (GD) is the preferred terminology in the absence of
pulmonary hemorrhage [1, 2].
Pulmonary hemorrhage is a rare but serious complication of SLE in children.
The right-to-left shunting of blood secondary to a pulmonary AVM can result in systemic hypoxemia, paradoxical embolism, stroke, cerebral abscess, or
pulmonary hemorrhage. In different series, 13 to 55% of patients with pulmonary AVM were asymptomatic [10-12].
Bronchoscopy performed on September 09, 2016, revealed
pulmonary hemorrhage with the presence of hemosiderin-laden macrophages.