Multiple Choice
A patient with a newly inserted pulmonary catheter begins to cough up blood-tinged sputum. The most likely cause for this is:
A) pneumothorax.
B) pulmonary embolus.
C) pulmonary infarction.
D) perforation of the heart muscle.
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