[Emergency pneumonectomy for severe hemoptysis in pulmonary tuberculosis]

The authors present two cases of severe tuberculous hemopthysis cured by pneumectomy. The patients had repeatedly presented severe hemopthysis meanacing their life and necessitated intensive resbuscitation, with intubation and mechanical respiratory prostheses. The authors also discuss the mechanism of death in severe hemopthysis, demonstrating that death is especially due to bronchial obstruction by clots of blood.