Author(s)

Madiha Mahfoudhi, Imen Gorsane, Mounira El Euch, Sami Turki, Taieb Ben Abdallah

Internal Medicine Department, Charles Nicolle Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia.

Hughes-Stovin syndrome is a scarce entity associating pulmonary artery aneurysms and deep venous thrombosis. It was considered to be a form of Behcet’s syndrome at its initial feature. We present a case of a 27-year-old man having a Hughes-Stovin syndrome. The patient had a history of left ilio-femoral thrombosis and suffered from recurrent oral ulcers. He presented with recurrent hemoptysis. A giant pulmonary aneurysm was confirmed by chest CT scan. A right femoral thrombosis was shown on the inferior legs doppler ultrasonography. The patient was treated by steroids and cyclophosphamide and proposed to an embolization to prevent recurrence of symptoms.

Hemoptysis, Pulmonary Aneurysm, Hughes-Stovin Syndrome

Mahfoudhi, M. , Gorsane, I. , El Euch, M. , Turki, S. and Abdallah, T. (2015) Recurrent Hemoptysis in a Young Man. Open Journal of Internal Medicine, 5, 29-32. doi: 10.4236/ojim.2015.53006.