A patient spat an incredible blood clot 15 centimeters wide – 10/12/2018

It looks like a tree, a coral or roots. One could even badume that it is an artistic installation. But it's a blood clot 15 centimeters wide of the right bronchial tree. The most incredible thing: a man expelled him coughing.

The picture was provided by Gavitt Woodard and Georg Wieselthaler, two physicians from the University of California (USA) who treated the patient. The newspaper published it in November New England Journal of Medicine and since then he's been around the world.

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As published in L & # 39; Atlantic, doctors still do not explain how could it have come out of his body? "This surprised us, it's a curiosity you can not imagine, that is, it's very, very, very rare," Wieselthaler said.

The patient, aged 36, had "heart failure with a 20% ejection fraction, a bioprosthetic replacement of the aortic valve for bicuspid aortic stenosis, aortic aneurysm and the establishment of a permanent pacemaker for complete heart block ".

Upon admission to the intensive care unit of the hospital, he was connected to a pump so that the blood circulates. "An Impella Ventricular Assist Device has been placed for the treatment of acute heart failure and a continuous infusion of heparin has been instituted for systemic anticoagulation," says the medical report.

"During an extreme coughing crisis, the patient spontaneously expelled an intact mold of the right bronchial tree", keep on going.

Then, the man was extubated and no longer had episodes of hemoptysis. But a week later, he died of complications due to heart failure, despite the introduction of the ventricular badist device.