Rasmussen's Aneurysm: A Case Report

Abstract

Journal of Case Reports and Studies Case presentationThis is a 46-year-old male patient, never treated for tuberculosis, no recent contact with tuberculosis, no history of smoking or specific exposure to the toxic product, no notion of long-term drug use, no notion of heart disease or other respiratory or extralung pathology. Who for 4 years has had recurrent episodes of hemoptysis of great abundance evolving in a context of preservation of the general state without other associated respiratory or extra respiratory signs.The clinical examination finds a patient in good general condition, slightly discolored conjunctiva, eupneic, with a respiratory rate of 18 cycles per minute, oxygen saturation in the open air at 97%, bilateral fine crepitation at the two pulmonary bases, the cardiovascular examination as well as the rest of the clinical examination is without particularity A frontal chest X-ray was performed (Figure 1), supplemented by a thoracic angio CT (Figure 2). The following diagnoses were mentioned: