Other Causes of coughing up blood:
o Cystic fibrosis
o Lung Cancer
o Amyloidosis (A disorder marked by the deposition of amyloid in organs or tissues of the body)
o Wegener's Granulomatosis (Vasculitis of small vessels affecting the respiratory tract and kidney)
o Bronchial adenoma:
A bronchial adenoma is a glandular tumor in the trachea or large bronchi (the large airways of the lung) that usually causes obstruction of the airway.
o Fungus infection of the lung such as coccidiomycosis, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis
o Goodpasture's syndrome:
An autoimmune disorder that is characterized by the presence of circulating antibodies in the blood which attack the basement membrane of the kidney's glomeruli and the lung's alveoli and that is marked initially by coughing, fatigue, difficulty in breathing, and hemoptysis progressing to glomerulonephritis and pulmonary hemorrhages.
o Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis
o Lung abscess
o Parasites including schistosomiasis, paragonimus westermani
o Rare lung tumors
o Hydatid cyst in the lung