Man Coughs Up A Lung Then Dies

Georg Wieselthaler, a transplant and pulmonary surgeon at UCSF, told KPIX the patient had an extreme bout of coughing and produced the 6-inch clot shaped like a lung passage
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According to the article that I read, he felt much better immediately after coughing up the clot, but the numerous complications of his heart failure (hence the anticoagulants) were too severe for doctors to be able to save him and he died a week later.

They also speculated that the cast was so good due to an infection causing a higher than usual concentration of fibrinogen in his blood making it unusually rubbery.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/12/bronchial-blood-clot/577480

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