Spontaneous Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome after Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction.
10.4070/kcj.1997.27.5.554
- Author:
Jun Gu LEE
;
Dong Hoon CHOI
;
Seok Min KANG
;
Yang Soo JANG
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Pulmonary hemorrhage;
Adult resporatory distress sydrome;
Thrombolytic therapy
- MeSH:
Adult*;
Aged;
Diagnosis, Differential;
Hemorrhage*;
Humans;
Myocardial Infarction*;
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult*;
Thrombolytic Therapy*;
Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator
- From:Korean Circulation Journal
1997;27(5):554-558
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We report a cace of 69-year-old man who developed massive pulmonary hemorrhage and subsuquent adult respiratory distress syndrome following intravenous urokinase for acute myocardial infarction. Pulmonary hemorrhage is a rare but a potentially life-threatening complication after thrombolytic therapy and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary infiltrates of falling hemoglobin after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction with no obvious site of bleeding.
