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...blood clot had formed in Lehe’s legs and moved into the right atrium of his heart before flowing through a hole between his left and right atria and traveling up to his brain...
Cardiologists are confident that they understand how heart attacks occur in men. The trouble usually begins when a fatty deposit or plaque, which has taken decades to build up on the inside of a coronary artery, becomes unstable and bursts, triggering a clot that blocks a blood vessel. Doctors can see these plaques during a fairly invasive procedure called an angiogram, in which a catheter is threaded through an artery in the groin or leg up to the arteries of the heart and a dye is then released to make any blockages easier to spot...
...caveats and uncertainties, and it's not surprising that when women finally get to the hospital, it takes longer for doctors and nurses to diagnose their trouble correctly. Unfortunately, the delay may make female patients too sick to qualify for certain lifesaving treatments, such as clot-buster drugs that can stop a heart attack in its tracks. And because most women are older when they develop heart trouble, they are more likely to suffer from other conditions that complicate their care...
...with a camera mounted on a gyroscope that allowed him to broadcast on the move. A father of three, he covered the O.J. Simpson trial and the Clinton White House before becoming co-anchor of the Weekend Today show. Doctors said the embolism was probably caused by a blood clot in his leg, perhaps linked to hours of cramped riding in an Army tank...
DIED. GEORGE MILLER, 61, stand-up comedian and frequent guest on David Letterman's late-night talk show; of complications from a blood clot in the brain following a long bout with leukemia; in Los Angeles. He and Letterman met on the L.A. comedy-club circuit in the 1970s, and the talk-show host invited him for more guest appearances--56--than any other comic...