{"id":11672,"date":"2018-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-heart-failure-man-coughs-up-lung\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"condition-heart-failure-man-coughs-up-lung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-heart-failure-man-coughs-up-lung\/","title":{"rendered":"This 36-Year-Old Literally Coughed Up His Lung Before He Died"},"content":{"rendered":"
After a terrible coughing fit, you’ve probably brushed it off by saying, “I thought I was going to cough up a lung." You were exaggerating, of course. But it turns out you really can<\/em> cough up a lung, or at least a clot that's formed into a mold of one.<\/p>\n A 36-year-old California man recently coughed up a blood clot in the shape of his bronchial tree after being hospitalized for heart palpitations<\/a>. According to a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine<\/em><\/a>, the man was admitted to the ICU at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center with chronic heart failure. He had a history of poor cardiovascular health and previously had a pacemaker implanted, in case his heart became completely blocked.<\/p>\n RELATED: <\/strong>11 Heart Failure Facts Cardiologists Want You to Know<\/a><\/p>\n The patient was already in poor health when he entered the hospital. He had an ejection fraction (EF)—which measures how much blood the left ventricle pumps out with each contraction—of only 20%. A normal EF is above 55%, according to Mayo Clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n man-coughed-up-lung<\/span> complications, including too much fluid in the blood and not enough blood pumping through the body.<\/p>\n