haemoptysis aetiology in association with its severity in an Italian population. We also evaluated the diagnostic yield of the prescribed diagnostic tests. … This is, to our best knowledge, the largest prospective study specifically designed to evaluate the epidemiology of haemoptysis and its severity in a high-income country. … Two European studies investigated the symptom aetiology based on hospital discharge diagnosis codes and found …
Haemoptysis, which is a challenging symptom accounting for 10–15% of all pulmonology consultations, may be associated with life-threatening medical conditions such as lung cancer [1–7].