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Query: UMLS:C0019079 (hemoptysis)
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Nine cases of paragonimiasis have been encountered in Laotian Hmong immigrants from Camp Ban Vinai in Thailand. Symptoms included cough, hemoptysis, and fever. Chest x-ray films showed segmental infiltrates and pleural effusions, often bilateral. The clinical presentation mimics tuberculosis. All Hmong patients with chronic infiltrates and pleural disease in whom tuberculosis has not been proven should have parasitologic and serologic evaluation to exclude paragonimiasis.
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PMID:Paragonimiasis in the United States. A report of nine cases in Hmong immigrants. 709 46

Sept 15, 1978. Urdukas Camp, Baltoro Glacier, K2. Jim is dying-each night he gets worse-more painful coughing (pleurisy) and increasing hemoptysis, so that I am afraid to anticoagulate him-respirations rising alarmingly and he can travel only a few paces uphill without going into paroxysms of bloody coughing.
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PMID:Emergency on the Karakoram Massif. 2925 88