FOX NEWS - 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 ...

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

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Doctors at UC San Francisco Medical Center see a lot of things, but even they were stunned by this. They were treating a 36-year-old man with end-stage heart failure when he began ...

Coughing out blood is definitely an alarming sight, but it is not unheard of. A man in California coughed out a blood clot so defined, it was an intact cast of the bronchial tree in his lungs. A ...

Detached medical terminology almost makes the situation bearable: “During an extreme bout of coughing, the patient spontaneously expectorated an intact cast of the right bronchial tree.” Translate to ...

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. Researchers published the shocking findings in ...

SAN FRANCISCO-A 36-year-old man who was suffering from chronic heart failure shocked doctors when he coughed up a blood clot closely resembling the bronchial tree in his right lung in late November.