involves coughing or spitting up blood or blood-streaked mucus from your respiratory tract (i.e. lungs and airways).

Cough lasting for more than two weeks, and sometimes with blood-streaked sputum. • shortness of breath. • loss of appetite and weight loss. • fever and sweating. When someone is diagnosed ...

During the week before entry an increase in the chronic cough occurred, with the production of blood-streaked sputum, increasing shortness of breath and mental confusion. He had been a heavy ...

Three months previously he had a cough that was productive of large amounts of mucoid, brownish sputum. Three weeks before entry increasing fatigue and slightly blood-streaked sputum were observed.