During his first week of hospitalization the man was coughing up blood and mucus, and during one of those fits out came the cast of his right bronchial tree. How did this happen? Wieselthaler ...

A 36-year-old man was admitted to the ICU with an acute exacerbation of chronic #heartfailure. After a ventricular assist device was placed & anticoagulation therapy initiated, hemoptysis ...

A recently published case report describes the case of a 36-year-old male chronic heart failure (HF) patient who, “spontaneously expectorated an intact cast of the right bronchial tree ...

He died not long after. What's so bizarre about the clot is it's a cast of his right bronchial tree — that doesn't really happen. It would have been more understandable if the clot came out ...

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.” ...

After a ventricular assist device was placed and anticoagulation therapy initiated, hemoptysis developed, and he expectorated a cast of the right bronchial tree.