Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature
Haemoptysis is rarely reported following coitus, and cardiac decompensation has been mostly implicated in the aetiology. We present a 53-year-old Nigerian, known hypertensive diabetic woman with background ischaemic heart disease who presented with postcoital haemoptysis of one-year duration. Echoc...
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| author | Emeka B. Kesieme Browne C. Okonkwo Peter O. Okokhere Georgi Prisadov Eghosa Aigbe Christopher Affusim |
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| description | Haemoptysis is rarely reported following coitus, and cardiac decompensation has been mostly implicated in the aetiology.
We present a 53-year-old Nigerian, known hypertensive diabetic woman with background ischaemic heart disease who presented with postcoital haemoptysis of one-year duration. Echocardiography revealed combined ischaemic and mitral valvular heart disease, probably of rheumatic aetiology. There has been no previous report in an African population. This case illustrates the need to rule out coitus as a rare but potential cause of haemoptysis in middle aged patients with underlying cardiac pathologies and the need for an extensive cardiac workup in a population with predominantly pulmonary causes of haemoptysis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8272f4cdd8c943fe96053d2b9831048a2025-02-03T05:59:47ZengWileyCase Reports in Medicine1687-96271687-96352013-01-01201310.1155/2013/189326189326Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the LiteratureEmeka B. Kesieme0Browne C. Okonkwo1Peter O. Okokhere2Georgi Prisadov3Eghosa Aigbe4Christopher Affusim5Department of Surgery, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, PMB 8, Irrua, Edo State, NigeriaDepartment of Medicine, Central Hospital Agbor, PMB 2005, Agbor, Delta State, NigeriaDepartment of Medicine, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, PMB 8, Irrua, Edo State, NigeriaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Bremen-Ost, Osterholzer Landstraße 51, Bremen, GermanyDepartment of Surgery, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, PMB 8, Irrua, Edo State, NigeriaDepartment of Family Medicine, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, PMB 8, Irrua, Edo State, NigeriaHaemoptysis is rarely reported following coitus, and cardiac decompensation has been mostly implicated in the aetiology. We present a 53-year-old Nigerian, known hypertensive diabetic woman with background ischaemic heart disease who presented with postcoital haemoptysis of one-year duration. Echocardiography revealed combined ischaemic and mitral valvular heart disease, probably of rheumatic aetiology. There has been no previous report in an African population. This case illustrates the need to rule out coitus as a rare but potential cause of haemoptysis in middle aged patients with underlying cardiac pathologies and the need for an extensive cardiac workup in a population with predominantly pulmonary causes of haemoptysis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/189326 |
| spellingShingle | Emeka B. Kesieme Browne C. Okonkwo Peter O. Okokhere Georgi Prisadov Eghosa Aigbe Christopher Affusim Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature Case Reports in Medicine |
| title | Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature |
| title_full | Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature |
| title_fullStr | Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature |
| title_short | Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature |
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