Open AccessHemoptysis and unilateral intra‐alveolar hemorrhage complicating intravenous thrombolysis for myocardial infarction
Author(s) -
Hammoudeh Ayman J.,
Haft Jacob I.,
Eichman Gerard T.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960190714
Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , thrombolysis , diffuse alveolar hemorrhage , tissue plasminogen activator , lung , pulmonary hemorrhage , cardiology , infarction , anesthesia , surgery
This report deals with a patient who developed hemoptysis due to unilateral intra‐alveolar hemorrhage after receiving tissue‐type plasminogen activator (TPA) for acute myocardial infarction; the patient had sustained an ipsilateral lung injury 2 years earlier.