A 36-year-old man in California was admitted to the ICU for heart failure. After he was placed on blood thinners, he spat up a cast of his lungs' right bronchial tree.
The doctors determined the patient’s blood had filled up the passages in his right bronchial tree and solidified “like Jell-O.”
“No one on our team has seen anything close to this,” said Gavitt Woodard, a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the hospital. She said the blood clots the patient had coughed up were a side effect of the medication.
The patient was intubated for two days after the coughing attack but died the following week due to complications from heart failure.
Source: foxnews.com
