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Causes

Common Causes

• Aspergilloma
• Bronchiectasis
• Bronchitis
• Coccidioidomycosis
• Idiopathic - in 20% cases
• Lung neoplasm (in smokers, when hemoptysis is persistent)
• Pneumonia
• Pneumonic plague
• Pulmonary embolism
• Tuberculosis

Causes by Organ System

Cardiovascular
Chemical / poisoning
Dermatologic
Drug Side Effect
Ear Nose Throat
Endocrine
Environmental
Gastroenterologic
Genetic
Hematologic
Iatrogenic
Infectious Disease
Musculoskeletal / Ortho
Neurologic
Nutritional / Metabolic
Obstetric/Gynecologic
Oncologic
Opthalmologic	No underlying causes
Overdose / Toxicity
Psychiatric
Pulmonary
Renal / Electrolyte
Rheum / Immune / Allergy
Sexual	No underlying causes
Trauma
Urologic
Dental
Miscellaneous

Causes in Alphabetical Order

A-v malformation Absence of pulmonary artery Actinomycosis Acute or chronic bronchitis Adenocarcinoma of lung Adenoid cystic carcinoma Adenoma Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ards) Adult small cell lung cancer Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency Alveolar hydatid disease Alveolitis Amiodarone Amyloidosis Anerobic pneumonia Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody-mediated disease Anticoagulants Aortic aneurysm Arterial bronchial fistula Arteritis Asbestosis Ascariasis Aspergilloma Aspirin Behcet's syndrome Benign lung tumor Bevacizumab Blood dyscrasias Bronchial adenoma Bronchial artery aneurysm Bronchial varices Bronchiectasis Bronchiolo-alveolar adenocarcinoma Bronchitis Bronchogenic carcinoma Bronchogenic cyst Broncholithiasis Bronchoscopy Bullous emphysema Carbamoylphosphate synthetase deficiency Carcinoma of the vocal tract Cardiac failure Catamenial hemoptysis Chest injury Chronic berylliosis Chronic bronchitis Cirrhosis of liver Clove cigarettes Coagulopathy Cocaine Coccidioidomycosis Common ventricle Congenital heart disease Congenital mitral malformation Congenital mitral stenosis Congestive heart failure Crack cocaine Cryptogenic Cystic fibrosis Cytotoxic drug use Dengue Dicoumarol Dieulafoy's disease Dirofilaria immitis Disseminated intravascular coagulation Echinococcal cyst Echinococcus granulosus Ehler-danlos syndrome (vascular type) Eisenmenger syndrome Endometriosis Endotracheal tubes Esophageal carcinoma Esophageal tumors Essential thrombocytosis Extrinsic allergic alveolitis Fat embolism Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia Follicular hamartoma-alopecia-cystic fibrosis Foreign body in respiratory tract Francisella tularensis Goodpasture syndrome Heart failure Heart valve damage Hemangioma Hemophilia Hemorrhagic diathesis Henoch-schonlein purpura Herbal agent adverse reaction Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia Histiocytosis x Histoplasmosis HIV Hookworm Hughes-stovin syndrome Idiopathic Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis Immunodeficiency Inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung Influenza Inhalation of nitrogen dioxide Inhalation of pesticides Intrathoracic endometriosis Isolated unilateral absence of pulmonary artery Kartagener syndrome Klebsiella Laceration vocal cords Large cell carcinoma Laryngeal carcinoma Laryngitis Laryngoscopy Left atrial hypertension Left atrial myxoma Lemierre's syndrome Leukemia Leukocytoclastic angiitis Linguatula serrata Lung abscess Lung biopsy Lung contusion Lung fibrosis Lung metastases Lung neoplasm Lung polyps Lung trauma Lung ulceration Lung vasculitis Lupus pneumonitis Lymphangiography Lymphangiomyomatosis Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia Lymphomatoid granulomatosis Malignant lymphoma Meadows syndrome Mediastinal tumors Mediastinoscopy Melioidosis Mesothelioma Microscopic polyangiitis Mitral stenosis Mixed type non small cell carcinoma Mucormycosis Münchausen syndrome Mycetoma Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium xenopi Naphtha poisoning Necrotic pneumonia Nocardiosis Nosocomial pneumonia Oropharyngeal cancer Papillomatosis carcinoid Paracoccidioidomycosis Paragonimiasis Penetrating chest wound Penicillamine Petroleum distillates poisoning Pharyngeal cancer Pharyngeal polyps Pharyngeal tumor Pharyngeal ulceration Phenprocoumon Pleuropulmonary blastoma Pneumonia Pneumonic plague Polyarteritis nodosa Portal vein obstruction Post fontan procedure Propylthiouracil Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation Pulmonary artery agenesis Pulmonary artery catheter Pulmonary artery rupture Pulmonary artery stenosis Pulmonary congestion Pulmonary edema Pulmonary embolism Pulmonary fibrosis Pulmonary helminth infection Pulmonary hemangioma Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary infarction Pulmonary sequestration Pulmonary thrombosis Pulmonary veins stenosis Rasmussen's aneurysm Rhodococcus equi Rib tumor Ruptured aortic aneurysm Ruptured arteriovenous fistula Ruptured bronchi Sarcoidosis Septic pulmonary emboli Serratia marcescens Severe nosebleed Severe vomiting Shrapnel Spirometry Stachybotrys atra Stachybotrys chartarum Staphylococcal respiratory infection Stomatitis Suctioning of airways Sulfuric acid poisoning Swan ganz catheter-induced infarction Systemic lupus erythematosus Tetralogy of fallot Thrombocytopenia Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura Toluene diisocyanate poisoning Tonsillectomy Tonsillitis Torulopsis Tracheal cancer Tracheal trauma Tracheal ulceration Tracheal-innominate artery fistula Tracheitis Tracheo-esophageal fistula and esophageal varices Tracheobronchitis Tracheobronchopathia osteoplastica Tracheotomy Transbronchial biopsy Transtracheal aspiration Tricuspid endocarditis Trimellitic anhydride Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia Tuberculosis Uremic lung Vanadium poisoning Vasculitis Violent coughing Von willebrand's disease Warfarin Wegener granulomatosis Yersinia pestis Zygomycosis References