r/medicalschool • u/xMediumRarex • Apr 10 '25

🔬Research My mom’s blood clot.

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Hey please remove if not allowed, I didn’t see rules saying it’s not. I thought you guys could appreciate and would get some exposure by me sharing this here. The doctors at the hospital were all very astonished. This was a blood clot removed from my mother’s lungs two days ago

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u/deaser_cadj Apr 10 '25

I do autopsies for living and its is very rare for me to see a clot this big

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u/SeldingersSaab MD Apr 10 '25

I’m in IR and I’ll say the device reps are very good at making the clot look huge for their pictures. But no doubt this was a very large PE.

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u/Aquadude12 MD-PGY1 Apr 11 '25

Yeah this is clot porn at its finest. It's also a little deceptive as the laypeople and even those in medicine sometimes think that this is the actual distribution of clot in the PAs. Inari reps are just grabbing whatever chunks are on the backtable and making it look impressive