Massive haemoptysis in a woman with left lower lobe pulmonary artery interruption-A rare clinical presentation

Sanjiwika L Wasgewatta; Subash S Heraganahally; Ram H Ghimire; Aijye Lim; Phillip Carson

doi:10.1002/rcr2.997

Massive haemoptysis in a woman with left lower lobe pulmonary artery interruption-A rare clinical presentation

Respirol Case Rep. 2022 Jun 21;10(7):e0997. doi: 10.1002/rcr2.997. eCollection 2022 Jul.

Authors

Sanjiwika L Wasgewatta¹, Subash S Heraganahally^{1

2}, Ram H Ghimire¹, Aijye Lim³, Phillip Carson⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Royal Darwin Hospital Darwin Northern Territory Australia.
² College of Medicine and Public Health Flinders University Adelaide South Australia Australia.
³ Department of Anatomical Pathology, Territory Pathology Royal Darwin Hospital Darwin Northern Territory Australia.
⁴ Department of Surgery Royal Darwin Hospital Darwin Northern Territory Australia.

Abstract

Proximal interruption of the pulmonary artery (PA) is a rare congenital vascular anomaly with varying presentation. These patients can be asymptomatic or symptomatic with breathlessness, haemoptysis, recurrent chest infections and pulmonary hypertension. Here, we present a patient who presented with massive haemoptysis secondary to interruption of the left lower lobe PA. To the best of our knowledge, massive haemoptysis due to isolated interruption of the left lower lobe PA has been rarely reported in the English medical literature.

Keywords: congenital; haemoptysis; interruption of the pulmonary artery; lobe; pulmonary.

Publication types

Case Reports