This case describes the use of flexible bronchoscopy and cryoadhesion in an 83-year-old man who developed large airway clots following treatment with activated factor VII for a complication of pulmonary hemorrhage during coronary artery bypass graft.

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A woman developed thrombocytopenia, first noticed as a reduction in the platelet count to a low-normal value, 17 days after treatment with carvedilol was begun. Other possible culprit drugs were withdrawn, but the platelet count continued to drop until carvedilol was discontinued. The platelet count rose on the day of carvedilol removal and was within the normal range within another day.

A 24-year-old African American female nonsmoker, with a reported history of asthma presented to the hospital with 2 weeks of shortness of breath and sputum production. She had a chest X-ray and computed tomography scan that displayed evidence of a right upper lobe collapse. She subsequently had a bronchoscopy that revealed an endobronchial lesion at the opening of the right upper lobe bronchus. Biopsies performed were consistent with a granular cell tumor. Granular cell tumors are rare submucosal tumors of Schwann cell origin. Resection of the right upper lobe resolved her symptoms and wheezing.