Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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4/2025
vol. 22
 
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Letter to the Editor

Targeted bronchial artery embolization: a life-saving intervention for recurrent massive hemoptysis in bronchiectasis

Vasileios Leivaditis
1
,
Spyros Papadoulas
2
,
Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos
2
,
Nikolaos G. Baikoussis
3
,
Konstantinos Grapatsas
4
,
Konstantinos Tasios
5
,
Elias Liolis
6
,
Andreas Antzoulas
7
,
Dimitrios Litsas
8
,
Panagiotis Dimitrios Papadopoulos
9
,
George Theofanis
7
,
Paraskevi Katsakiori
7
,
Chrysa Andrikopoulou
7
,
Manfred Dahm
1
,
Efstratios Koletsis
10
,
Francesk Mulita
7

  1. Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  2. Department of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece
  3. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ippokrateio General Hospital of Athens, Greece
  4. Department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, Ruhrlandklinik, West German Lung Center, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen , Germany
  5. John Radcliffe Hospital Emergency Department, University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
  6. Department of Oncology, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece
  7. Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece
  8. Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Lamia, Greece
  9. Department of Surgery, Spital Herisau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland
  10. Department of Cardiothoracic, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece
Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2025; 22 (4): 312-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2025.158040
Online publish date: 2025/12/30
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