A young man with tuberculosis presents with massive recurrent hemoptysis. Most probable cause would be.: (A) Pulmonary aery, (B) Bronchial aery, (C) Pulomary vein, (D) Superior vena cava
Answer is B. B i.e. Broncheal aery In great majority of patients hemoptysis originates from systemic rather than pulmonary aeries and the bronchial vessels are almost universally involved. (Grainger) Massive hemoptysis in a patient of T.B. is usually d/ t erosion of bronchial aery which bleeds at systemic pressure.