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[|Human|] Have been to a and e with healthy pal today coughing up blood, shadow on lung on X-ray. Previous shadow seen few years ago, diagnosed as latent TB. It s bigger today. Really well other than this. Going to Gp Wednesday for referral into Thorazine dept x to.d possibly to or lung cancer
[|AI|]  Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. Coughing out blood is known as hemoptysis.  And it is not a good sign. Hemoptysis can be seen in many causes, but common ones are1. Tuberculosis2. Chronic bronchitis. 3. Malignancy4.  Pneumonia 5. Lung trauma etc. Since you had tuberculosis in the past, I think recurrence of tuberculosis is the cause for your Hemoptysis at present. So consult pulmonologist and get done chest x-ray and sputum AFB to rule out this. You may need CT THORAX and Bronchoscopy to rule out other causes. So consult pulmonologist and discuss all these.