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 an intact cast of the right bronchial tree.

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.

There was a case of a 25-year-old pregnant woman who coughed up a small cast of her bronchial tree, and later went on to recover and give birth to a healthy baby, according to a 2005 report in the ...

A 36-year-old man was admitted to the intensive care unit with an acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure. After a ventricular assist device was placed and anticoagulation therapy initiated, he ...

The New England Journal of Medicine tweeted a photo of a blood clot a man coughed up in the shape of the right bronchial tree of his lung. Twitter user reactions ranged from horrified to fascinated.

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.

They were treating a 36-year-old man with end-stage heart failure when he began coughing so violently, that he coughed up a 6-inch-wide blood clot from his lungs in the near-perfect shape of his ...