Hemoptysis and unilateral intra-alveolar hemorrhage complicating intravenous thrombolysis for myocardial infarction

Abstract

This report deals with a patient who developed hemoptysis due to unilateral intra-alveolar hemorrhage after receiving tissue-type plasminogen activator (TPA) for acute myocardial infarction; the patient had sustained an ipsilateral lung injury 2 years earlier.