Moderate Hemoptysis Caused by Hughes-Stovin Syndrome

Hughes and Stovin first reported a syndrome consisting of multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms and venous thrombosis in 1959. Here, we encountered a 42-year old woman who had hemoptysis revealing a Hughes-Stovin syndrome. Helical computed tomography showed multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms with pul...

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Autores principales: El Aoud, Sahar, Frikha, Faten, Snoussi, Mouna, Bahloul, Zouhir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25568765
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2014.647
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author El Aoud, Sahar
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description Hughes and Stovin first reported a syndrome consisting of multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms and venous thrombosis in 1959. Here, we encountered a 42-year old woman who had hemoptysis revealing a Hughes-Stovin syndrome. Helical computed tomography showed multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms with pulmonary thromboembolism. The patient was treated with steroid therapy, cyclophosphamide and anticoagulation with a good response.
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spelling pubmed-42744832015-01-07 Moderate Hemoptysis Caused by Hughes-Stovin Syndrome El Aoud, Sahar Frikha, Faten Snoussi, Mouna Bahloul, Zouhir Clin Pract Case Report Hughes and Stovin first reported a syndrome consisting of multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms and venous thrombosis in 1959. Here, we encountered a 42-year old woman who had hemoptysis revealing a Hughes-Stovin syndrome. Helical computed tomography showed multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms with pulmonary thromboembolism. The patient was treated with steroid therapy, cyclophosphamide and anticoagulation with a good response. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4274483/ /pubmed/25568765 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2014.647 Text en ©Copyright S. El Aoud et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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