Yes, this whole tree-like blood clot emerged from a 36-year-old patient in one piece. The patient had received blood thinners after having a mechanical heart pump placed in his body.

A 36-year-old California man who was admitted to the intensive care unit with chronic heart failure was coughing so severely that he hacked up a blood clot in his lung that was shaped like his ...

A patient dying from heart failure last month coughed up a blood clot in the shape of his right lung’s bronchial tree nearly 6-inches in length, according to a photo from the New England Journal ...

The patient’s blood pooled in his right bronchial tree – part of the network where air travels through the lungs – and solidified “like Jell-O,” Woodard said. And it came out whole and ...

A blood clot formed in the exact shape of a man’s lung passage — then he coughed it up. December 8, 2018 More than ... and he expectorated a cast of the right bronchial tree.

A man coughed up a large blood clot that was in the shape of his "bronchial tree," or the lung's branched airway passages. (Image credit: The New England Journal of Medicine ©2018) ...

It’s a completely intact, six-inch-wide clot of human blood in the exact shape of the right bronchial tree, one of the two key tubular networks that ferry air to and from the lungs. And it was ...

Familiar with the phrase “cough up a lung”? It’s not actually possible, but one man stunned doctors when he coughed up a blood clot in the shape of one.

CHENNAI : A blood clot in the shape of a bronchial tree, a tree in the shape the air takes as we draw it into ourselves. Two trees, actually — one for each lung ...

Lung structure shaped by fluid dynamics and transport Date: October 4, 2013 Source: Springer Science+Business Media Summary: Physicists suggest how evolution has shaped our lungs through ...

A 36-year-old California man who was admitted to the intensive care unit with chronic heart failure was coughing so severely that he hacked up a blood clot in his lung that was shaped like his ...

Then, during an "extreme bout of coughing" he coughed up the clot that was shaped like the entire right bronchial tree, according to an article by Gavitt A. Woodard, M.D. and Georg M. Wieselthaler ...