Does cirrhosis cause hemoptysis?
Cirrhosis is a digestive system disease, commonly seen in hepatitis B cirrhosis, hepatitis C cirrhosis, or alcoholic cirrhosis. In the late stages of cirrhosis, many complications may occur, the most common being hepatic ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, and upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by cirrhosis entails vomiting blood rather than coughing up blood, which is generally seen in respiratory diseases such as bronchiectasis or tuberculosis, which are common causes of coughing up blood. Therefore, when there is a major episode of vomiting blood due to cirrhosis-induced upper gastrointestinal bleeding, it is urgent to go to the hospital for intravenous blood transfusion. If necessary, a gastroscopy should be performed, and during this procedure, a vascular ligation technique may be used for hemostasis in symptomatic treatment.
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