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Funny this is ultimately true.

A California man literally coughed up part of his lung after he was hospitalized for heart palpitations.  

In a case report from the New England Journal of Medicine, surgeons from the University of California San Francisco Medical Center presented the case of a 36-year-old patient who was admitted to the ICU with chronic heart failure.

Due to his history of poor cardiovascular health, he'd had a pacemaker implanted in case his heart became completely blocked.

However, throughout his first week in the hospital, he coughed up blood and mucus and, during an intense coughing spell, he managed to expectorate an intact cast of the bronchial tree before he died the following week. 

In a case report, a 36-year-old California man managed to cough up an intact cast of the right bronchial tree of his lung (pictured) after he was admitted to the hospital for chronic heart failure

It is clear when the patient entered the hospital he was in declining health.

His heart had an ejection fraction (EF), how much blood the left ventricle pumps out with each contraction, of 20 percent. A normal EF is between 50 and 75 percent.

Additionally, he had bicuspid aortic stenosis. After blood is pumped out of the left ventricle, it passes through the aortic valve to circulate throughout the body.

This valve normally has three cusps - or leaflets - but a bicuspid aortic valve is a congenital defect in which the valve only has two cusps.

According to a 2006 study from Emory University School of Medicine, only one to two percent of the US population has this disease.

Because of this defect, it is more prone to stenosis, which is when these passages narrow, meaning the aortic valve often needs to be replaced at a young age.

In the case of this man, he'd had his valve replaced with bioprosthetic valve, which is made from the tissue of animal donors such as calves.

During the week after the man was admitted to the hospital, he was coughing up blood and mucus, increasing the strain on his lungs.

Additionally, doctors needed to increasingly supply him with supplemental oxygen.

It was during a particularly violent coughing spell that he spontaneously coughed up an intact cast of the right bronchial tree. 

The trachea and the two primary bronchi are called the bronchial tree. The tubes that make up the bronchial tree distribute air to the lungs. 

The right main bronchus in the right lung is wider, shorter and more vertical than the left main bronchus in the left lung. It also divides into three branches while the left divides into two. 

Human lungs are too large to fit through the trachea, so it is not possible to cough up an entire lung.

Dr Gavitt Woodard, a general surgery resident at UCSF, said that a cast of the bronchial tree is essentially a clot that takes up the shape of the lung.

'He slowly bled which filled up the right side of the bronchial tree,' she told DailyMail.com.

How was he able to cough it up? Dr Woodard says the cast has a spaghetti-like consistency.

'It's very soft but it's displayed the way it is to show the anatomy,' she said. 

In the case of the man, all three segmental branches were coughed up: the upper lobe (blue arrows), the middle lobe (white arrows) and the lower lobe (black arrows). 

The patient was immediately intubated and doctors performed a bronchoscopy, which allows doctors to look at the lungs and air passages.

They discovered that the man had a small amount of blood in the basilar branches, which supply oxygen-rich blood, of the right lower lobe. 

Two days later, the man was extubated and had no more episodes of coughing up blood or mucus.   

But just one week after this, the patient died from heart failure complications, mainly volume overload - when there is too much fluid in the blood - and low cardiac output, which is when there is a low amount of blood the heart is pumping through the circulatory system.

This is not the first time there has been a reported incident of someone hacking up a piece of their lung.

A case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2012 described the case of a 40-year-old woman in the UK who was suffering from asthma.
Source: Daily mail.

Whatever....
I just pray God should kill apc.

Laos is not under boundage...
Tinubu's name is just everywhere...
Tinubu cap just dey few roundabout...
Tinubu street no pass just 17...
Tinubu just dey Audit lagos...
Tinubu get just 2 Toll gate...
Tinubu just decide who he wants to be the gov...
Tinubu is just the Eternal gov of Lagos...
Tinubu just dry rear over 100,000 Thugs that can be deploy incase of too much peace...
Tinubu just make his Daughter the iyaloja..
He just make his Wife A senator for the umpteenth time.
Tinubu just do whatever he wants...
It doesn't mean Lagos is under boundage or otherwise if boundage emeans Tnibj'?

Why do Nigeria needs US validation to vote for Atiku...
Presidency being having sleepless night over US visa..
We should stop ridiculing ourselves...
No one as bring as much shame to this country like Buhari and his APC cohorts has done.

Doing it for the gram

Okoroawusa..

I'm just waiting for the table to turn by 2019...
I know many APC governors will run before their tenure expires....But I'm also Sure Atiku won't be so vindictive...chasing shadow instead of working and stabilising the country.

I'm done criticising Buhari/Jubrin.
Now is the time to promote and campaign for the Next president...
Buhari and his APC cohorts are brain dead ...nothing good can come out out of their dead brain...
Let's charge our friends and family to do the needful...
A better Nigeria start with our Vote.
Atiku 2019.

I assume they just don't want them to look cute.

If we have minimum wages...I think there should be maximum too...
And governors and Senators should be the least earning including bonuses and allowance... Ambode shouldn't earn more than lawma officials....
We know they'll still Ganduje money somehow...but let's start from there.

This man is quite patriotic...
Unlike the rest of us prefer to die mute because of the unknown.

APC and selfish members....
Fayemi rigged himself to power with the help of Buhari.
Now He's being challenge by Segun Oni who once rigged himself to power and was sent packing out of the government house after 3 years as a governor...
This same men parade themselves as our leaders..and we will be here e fighting over this made in Ekiti fools.

He passed for the cutest.

She's fat oo...
But that ass will be clapping good if you go in from behind

Being living in Lagos for 5 years now...
Anytime I think about visiting places...na traffic dey first cut the plan...
I will make plan to visit this place this weekend...
Oh...
There will be a lot of traffic ooo...
Maybe early next year when the road used to be free because our Igbo brothers go still dey rock their village..

Features like this are not general features every user want...
Foldable phones are cool in a music video or as a celebrity..

Samsung used to be No 1 mobile phone manufacturer in the world..
Later they drop to No2.
Now!
Apple's NO1 to 5 ....
Samsung is not even rocking no 6 position well...
I'm not sure this new product can shoot them back to 2..... Anyway wetin I know...I'm just an average Nairaland who believes his view is a general view around the world.

Pretty good.

Buhari will pull a big vote in Kano...
South west is on a lock down for PDP...
The result will surprise him.

Is University getting easier?
Or
Student are getting smatter?
Or
Lecturers are actually given people what they really deserve instead of forming GOD.
Or
As student they see unemployment rate make then go beyond extra to make it Big...
Congratulations to you guys....I pray they all make it big in life....

Fake ass girl....
But the truth is she's making her money with that fake ass....
If me self see anything fake to make this much money..I go rush am oooo...
Making money with your body is better than going broke...
If only Buhari see get fake brain ,Nigeria won't be like this.

sarrki:
Nigeria �� police is a disgrace

All Nigerian institutions are disgrace

Nobody should blame it on Leaders

The followers are the major problem

The love impunity

They love lawlessness

The appreciate & celebrate bad governance

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Nobody should blame the leaders...Are you for real?
Every single thing goes right back to the leader...
If the last police that shot someone by accidental discharge or whatever they call it...got life in jail and his process of employment was rechecked and if he was employed because of a letter from a governor to the police chief...let them both face the law...by now,they all will be careful....
Everything na those old monsters...
My fear for Nigeria is the next set of leaders... people of questionable character....
People like Sanwolu.
Shina peller...
And all those yahoo boys moving into politics...

E yi ga

If dead body can give human wealth or any form of success...I'd love to donate my dead body for ritual to my family...
If that's just a myth.....I'd donate all my organs for whoever is in need of it or for science research....
I don't support wasting of resources.

I don't support Buhari because his government is so insincere and vindictive.
He's without Economic plan...

If you support Buhari,why?...if you don't ,why?

Not fake Buhari...that's not his name...
His name is JUBRIL.

If I be APC member..I for go take direct loan from CBN.

Rent in lagos ehn..
What the OP didn't factor...
Electricity will cost you -1k monthly...
Generator-7k
Waste disposal-500
Security-3k
Maintenance-2k
All the new houses in Lagos were built with substandard material...
Where I currently live (for 2 years now)
It's on the island,so anything metal here will spoil in months...
I've changed the Tanks and the raillings.
Change Nepa Pole.
Contribute money for roads.
Change every toilet fittings.
Different sockets
Door handles.
Power surge.
It's just countless....
OP...just open your eyes...this our lagos life is mere scam and trap.

But why are this people doing like this?
Can Nigeria matter be a curse or something...
Cos I no just understand.

How about Lagos?
VGC environ...
I guess it's Internet black out here...
Both MTN and Airtel being slower than snail for days now...
Thanks to Smile though.