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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 1979, Vol. 51, No. 5 457-459
© 1979 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

case-report

HAEMOPTYSIS FOLLOWING INSERTION OF A SWAN-GANZ CATHETER

E. M. KRANTZ, M.B., CH.B., D.C.H.(ENG.), F.F.A.(S.A.) and J. F. VILJOEN, M.B., CH.B., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S.

Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital, Wilshire and Sawtelle Boulevards Los Angeles, California 90073, U.S.A.
UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California and Chief of Anesthesiology, Wadsworth VA Hospital Center Los Angeles, California 90073, U.S.A.

Haemoptysis occurred in a patient in whom a Swan—Ganz catheter was inserted for the induction of anaesthesia for hemicolectomy. It is suggested that acute pulmonary hypertension, superimposed on existing chronic pulmonary hypertension associated with mitral stenosis, was an important aetiological factor in the haemoptysis.


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