Virender Kumar

Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis (IPH) is a rare, life-threatening disease of uncertain etiology, characterized by recur-rent intra-alveolar hemorrhages and usually afflicting young adults or children(l). Symptoms of lung hemorrhage are often few and atypical(2). Consequently, the con-dition may go unrecognized for a few years or months, presenting as recurrent iron deficiency anemia with no actual hemop-tysis(3). Failure to diagnose and treat the syndrome in early stages could result in progression and eventual respiratory failure because of pulmonary fibrosis(4). This com-mnunication shares the exprience of three cases of IPH, diagnosed over a two yea