Korean Circ J.  1997 May;27(5):554-558. 10.4070/kcj.1997.27.5.554.

Spontaneous Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome after Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction

• Lee JG
• Choi DH
• Kang SM
• Jang YS

• KMID: 1857719
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.1997.27.5.554

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.

Keyword

Pulmonary hemorrhage; Adult resporatory distress sydrome; Thrombolytic therapy

MeSH Terms

Adult*
Aged
Diagnosis, Differential
Hemorrhage*
Humans
Myocardial Infarction*
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult*
Thrombolytic Therapy*
Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator
Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator