Endoscopics findings in patients with hemoptysis and normal chest X-ray

Abstract

Hemoptysis is defined as the outcomming of blood from the subglotic region, habitually by the mechanism of cough. A cross- sectional, retrospective, transverse and descriptive study was carried out in patients with hemoptysis and normal PA thorax's x-ray. To whom were practiced bronchoscopy in the "Benéfico Jurídico" Neumologyc Hospital from January 1999, to January 2009, with the purpose of identifing the endoscopyc discoveries obtained through this procedure. The information was obtained from the bronchoscopy, microbiology and pathological Anatomy records of this center. The population was composed by 197 sick people and the sample was constituted by 67 patients. The statistical analysis was carried out in the program EPIDAT version 3.0. Mediates and standard (SD) were used for quantitative variables and absolute frequency and the percentages with their respective intervals of trust of 95% were used in all the variables. The masculine sex prevailed with a total of 45 patients (67.2%) and the age group was among 40-49 years old. In 70.1% of the cases it was observed inflammatory signs, and it was also obtained growth of pathogenics germs in 16 patients and in 17 (25.3%) it was confirmed the diagnosis of neoplasic desease by biopsy and/or bronchial brushing.

Keywords

• hemoptisis
• fibrobroncoscopia
• hemoptysis
• fibrobroncoscopy