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  1. The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (via HealthAtoZ): Hemoptysis healthatoz.com - Hemoptysis
  2. PulmonologyChannel: Hemoptysis:Overview pulmonologychannel.com - Hemoptysis:Overview
  3. American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP): Hemoptysis: Diagnosis And Management aafp.org - Hemoptysis: Diagnosis And Management
  4. The Merck Manuals: Hemoptysis merck.com - Hemoptysis
  5. Mayo Clinic: Coughing Up Blood (Hemoptysis): Is This Serious? mayoclinic.com - Coughing Up Blood (Hemoptysis): Is This Serious?
  6. Everday Health(via Family Practice Notebook): Hemoptysis fpnotebook.com - Hemoptysis
  7. Helium: What Is Hemoptysis helium.com - What Is Hemoptysis
  8. WrongDiagnosis: Symptom: Blood-Stained Phlegm wrongdiagnosis.com - Symptom: Blood-Stained Phlegm
  9. MedHelp: Respiratory Disorders (Expert Forum):Bloody Phlegm Answered By National Jewish medhelp.org - Respiratory Disorders (Expert Forum):Bloody Phlegm Answered By National Jewish
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Research Notes on Bloody Phlegm


Hemoptysis is the expectoration (coughing up) of blood or of blood-stained sputum from the bronchi, larynx, trachea, or lungs (e.g. in tuberculosis or other respiratory infections). This can be due to bronchitis or pneumonia most commonly, but also to lung neoplasm (in smokers, when hemoptysis is persistent), aspergilloma, tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, coccidioidomycosis, pulmonary embolism, or pneumonic plague. ...read more from Wikipedia


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  • It is described as bright red, and foamy bloodly sputum.1
  • It can result from over-anticoagulation from treatment by drugs such as Warfarin.1
  • It may be either self-limiting or recurrent.2

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Research Notes References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wikipedia: Hemoptysis
  2. ↑ The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (via HealthAtoZ): Hemoptysis

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