FATAL ASPHYXIA DUE TO MASSIVE HEMOPTYSIS IN A CASE OF MITRAL STENOSIS

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Abstract
Hemoptysis is a well-known complication of stenosis of the mitral valve; however, the world literature contains but few reported cases of death following hemoptysis from this cause. In the following case a mechanism for the cause of death due to massive hemoptysis is clearly demonstrated. REPORT OF A CASE The patient, a 54-year-old Jewish linotype operator, was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital on April 2, 1950, because of hemoptysis for the previous 24 hours. This episode, during which he coughed up several cupfuls of bright red blood, was the third or fourth and most serious he had had in the preceding five months. Fourteen years earlier, because of a chronic cough associated with dyspnea and chest pain that was diagnosed as bronchiectasis, he had moved to Arizona, where he did well medically. He returned to Chicago, and, except for the chronic cough, productive of small amounts of whitish or greenish

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