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- A patient in one medical center in California was coughing so hard that he managed to cough out a part of his bronchial tree.
- He died a week after the incident.
Have you ever felt like you’ve been coughing so much that you’re gonna cough out a part of your lungs? Well, turns out that it can actually happen.
A man from California who was admitted to the intensive care unit because of a heart failure was coughing so severely that he managed to hack up piece of his right bronchial tree.
The unidentified patient’s case was written in the New England Journal of Medicine. He was receiving treatment at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center.
In the span of one week, the patient has been coughing with phlegm and blood and during an extreme attack, he coughed out part of his lungs.
According to the case report’s authors, “The right bronchial tree consists of three segmental branches in the upper lobe, two segmental branches in the middle lobe, and five segmental branches in the lower lobe.
“The patient’s trachea was subsequently intubated, and flexible bronchoscopy revealed a small amount of blood in the basilar branches of the right lower lobe.”
He was extubated two days later with no further instances of coughing out blood, however, he died a week later due to heart failure.
