Word: clots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assistant to the President Sherman Adams, Deputy Assistant to the President Major General Wilton ("Jerry") Persons. The diagnosis: Eisenhower had suffered an occlusion of a small branch of the middle cerebral (brain) artery on the left side; the occlusion, or blockage, might have been caused either by a small clot or a vascular spasm (see MEDICINE). In short, though the White House would not use the word, the President had suffered a stroke...
...most improbable that he would have had a heart attack in the first place. And in elderly patients who have heart attacks, there is usually simultaneous involvement of the brain's arteries, so that parts of them are inelastic and narrowed, offering points of resistance that invite clot formation...
Died. Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, 66, Broadway and Hollywood playboy, onetime millionaire real estate speculator in cinema chains; of a cerebral blood clot; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A restless, imaginative developer of entertainment properties, Blumenthal made a fistful of millions by selling Cinemagnate William Fox the idea of a theater chain...
...Late-lingering worries that the blood clot that almost killed Summer Tan as a two-year-old might have had lasting effects were lost when Mrs. John Galbreath's great bay horse galloped down the stretch at Hialeah to put away Calumet Farms's Bardstown by three lengths and win the $60,900 McLennan Handicap...
...shutdown in a brain artery by a clot,, called a thrombosis if the clot forms at the site, or an embolism if the clot is formed elsewhere-usually the heart-and travels through the arteries to the brain...