Pulmonary Mucormycosis – An Experience from a Tertiary Care Center in Southern India: A PULM MUCOR Study by Ashwin Oliver Arul, K. Rajiv Karthik, Devasahayam Jesudas Christopher

“…Cough was the most frequent presenting symptom seen in 27 (73%), followed by fever 24 (64%), dyspnea 11 (30%), and hemoptysis 6 (16%). The most common computed tomography (CT) scan findings were consolidations and cavitations. …”
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Endobronchial Lipoma: A Rare Cause of Bronchial Stenosis or Obstruction by Jian Chen, Tao Xin, Lei Pan, Yan Li, Weisheng Qian, Jin Wei, Yan Yan, Yan Wang, Faguang Jin, Hua Jiang

“…All EL patients exhibited noticeable symptoms, including cough (in eight patients), dyspnea (in six patients), fever (in three patients), expectoration (in two patients), chest pain (in two patients), hemoptysis (in one patient), and fatigue (in one patient). …”
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Characteristics, Management, and Outcomes of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Due to Human Rhinovirus—A Retrospective Study by Ibrahim Bahabri, Abdulaziz Abdulaal, Thamer Alanazi, Sultan Alenazy, Yasser Alrumih, Rakan Alqahtani, Mohammad Bosaeed, Hasan M. Al-Dorzi

“…ICU patients had a higher prevalence of tachypnea (62.5% vs. 26.7%, p=0.005), hemoptysis (12.5% vs 0%, p=0.001), and lymphopenia (71.4% vs 26.3%, p=0.01). …”
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Impact of Herpesvirus Detection via Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Patients with Lower Respiratory Tract Infections by Zhang H, Zhang X, Zheng Y, Gu X, Fu Z, Gai W, Wang H

“…The HD group had a higher proportion of male patients (78.08% vs 55.04%, P = 0.001) and a greater incidence of hemoptysis and multilobar infiltrates compared non-HD group. …”
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Analysis of pulmonary sequestration cases, based on the 11-year birth defects surveillance data of Changsha hospitals by Ruobin Xie, Tao-Sha Wang, Yanling Wang, Wei-Dong Wang

“…The manifestations are repeated lung infections, dry cough, chest pain, chest tightness, and hemoptysis. Some cases have no symptoms in childhood and are misdiagnosed and mistreated because of lung imaging findings in adulthood. …”
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Anlotinib as Maintenance Therapy After First-Line Chemotherapy Combined with Consolidation Radiation for Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer by Jinbo Ma MD, Xiaoyan Ma MS, Wei Zhang MD, Shanliang Hu MS, Rukun Zang MS, Xiaolong Wu MS, Jie Song MD

“…There were higher incidence rates of hand–foot syndrome (27.3% vs 10.5%, P  = 0.001), gingival bleeding/hemoptysis (18.5% vs 4.8%, P  = 0.015) and rash (33.3% vs 4.8%, P  < 0.001) in the anlotinib group than in the observation group. …”
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Clinical and Radiological Presentations of Various Pulmonary Infections in Hospitalized Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Prospective, Hospital-Based, Comparative, Case Series Study by Pravesh Vishwakarma, Kauser Usman, Rajiv Garg, Jyoti Bajpai, Rishi Sethi, Akshyaya Pradhan

“…Nondiabetics more frequently presented with fever (p=0.0032), chest pain (p=0.0002), and hemoptysis (p=0.01) as compared to diabetics. Diabetics more frequently presented with extreme temperatures (hypothermia or hyperpyrexia) (p=0.022), lower serum sodium levels (p=0.047), and lower partial arterial pressure (p<0.001) than nondiabetics. …”
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Vasoreactive testing prevalence and characteristics in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension by Goncharova Natalia, Kirill Lapshin, Aelita Berezina, Irina Zlobina, Anton Ryzhkov, Zhaneta Matakaeva, Elizaveta Andreeva, Olga Moiseeva

“…Patients with ND VRT due to the physicians decision were often older than 60 years, had higher body mass index, symptoms of right heart failure, hemoptysis, arrhythmias, high NT-proBNP, and hemodynamic criteria of high risk in comparison with patients with done VRT. …”
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Clinical and Radiological Manifestations of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Jazan Region, Saudi Arabia by Abuobaida Yassin, Heba M. Shalaby

“…Radiologically, parenchymal lesions correlated with cough and SOB, whereas non-parenchymal lesions correlated with hemoptysis. The study highlights the importance of targeted screening, management strategies, and awareness initiatives in this population.…”
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Choriocarcinoma Syndrome as an Initial Presentation of Testicular Cancer by Carlos Eduardo Salazar-Mejía, María Elena García-Gutiérrez, María Inés Contreras-Salcido, Carlos Javier Rodríguez-Álvarez, Blanca Otilia Wimer-Castillo, Jackeline Grace Lara-Campos, Edio Llerena-Hernández, José Luis González-Vela, David Hernández-Barajas

“…We present the case of a 17-year-old man with a sudden onset nonmassive hemoptysis. Physical examination revealed a right testicular mass. …”
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Electromagnetic navigation system for computed tomography-guided synchronous percutaneous lung biopsy and microwave ablation of pulmonary nodules: a prospective, single-center, sin... by Shengwei Li, Zhixin Bie, Yuanming Li, Jie Sun, Jiangxu Zhang, Xiangyu Zi, Runqi Guo, Xiao-Guang Li

“…No major complications (grade ≥3) occurred and only seven minor complications (14.6%) occurred, including six cases of pneumothorax and one case of hemoptysis. The radiologists achieved high satisfaction scores after surgery.Conclusion The EMN system is feasible, safe and effective for CT-guided synchronous percutaneous lung biopsy and MWA of pulmonary nodules.…”
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Clinical Symptoms and Types of Samples Are Critical Factors for the Molecular Diagnosis of Symptomatic COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Literature Review by Milad Zandi, Abbas Farahani, Armin Zakeri, Sara Akhavan Rezayat, Ramin Mohammadi, Umashankar Das, Jonathan R. Dimmock, Shervin Afzali, Mohammadvala Ashtar Nakhaei, Alireza Doroudi, Yousef Erfani, Saber Soltani

“…Less common symptoms observed in clinically confirmed cases were hemoptysis, bloody sputum, mental disorders, and nasal congestion. …”
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Comparison of safety and effectiveness of medical adhesive and metal spring coil in preoperative localization of peripheral pulmonary nodules by Yifei Wang, Zhenhua Yue, Xiaoqian Shi, Guozhan Xia, Linlin Qin, Qi Sun, Yiling Huang, Rong Chen, Xuewei Zhao, Mingdong Wang

“…The incidence of complications such as pneumothorax [15.7% (13/83) vs 5.4% (11/205), P = 0.004], pulmonary hemorrhage/hemoptysis [20.5% (17/83) vs 4.9 (10/205), P &lt; 0.001] was significantly higher in the metal coil positioning group than in the medical adhesive positioning group.ConclusionPreoperative medical adhesive positioning for pulmonary nodules is safe, reliable, and effective. …”
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