Word: clots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Griffin belittled the possibility. the only plausible medical explanation of his case was that his blindness had been mainly, if not entirely, hysterical, i.e., brought on by the emotional shock of bomb blasts. Dissolution of a longstanding blood clot could not explain his recovery, as such a clot would soon have caused irreparable damage to the eye's nerves. Seeing his wife and children for the first time, he said: "They are more beautiful than I ever suspected ... I am astonished, stunned and thankful...
...idea to its technological conclusion: wisdom teeth and a few front teeth extracted from patients needing whole dentures are tagged for blood type and Rh factor, then preserved indefinitely in a deep-frozen tooth bank. When a tooth is transplanted, it is first held in place by a blood clot in a carefully made socket in the recipient's jaw. Discomfort usually passes off in about 18 hours, and the tooth's tiny blood vessels establish links with the circulation in its new mouth. It can never ache in the ordinary sense, because there is no nerve connection...
...Young. When a coronary branch has been narrowed sufficiently to slow the blood to a virtual standstill, a thrombus (clot) will form and block the flow altogether. However, only a minority of heart attacks are fatal, and many are not even detected during the victim's lifetime. Why the difference between a dramatic thrombosis as in the case of President Eisenhower and the individual who sleeps through his heart attack? The answer lies in the gradualness of the process that narrows the coronary artery concerned. If it constricts slowly for months, the heart brings into play its self-repair...
...Critical Hours. The most critical is the period for first the few victim hours of a after the coronary blood attack clot (thrombus) has formed in a coronary artery, cutting off the blood supply to one section of the heart muscle. If the patient is moved too soon after such an attack he may die of any one of a variety of immediate causes: a state of shock, ventricular fibrillation (a disorder of the heart rhythm in which the heart ceases to act as a pump) or, less often, the choking of the heart's action from the leakage...
...white blood cell count. But as the scar tissue-in Ike's case forming in the front wall of the heart-becomes stronger and more dead cells disappear, temperature and blood count return to normal. At the same time, the heart is developing collateral circulation. Immediately after a clot forms, the pressure drops in the area beyond it, and blood enters the area by alternate routes, such as already-existing interconnecting channels (see chart). Later, new arteries may grow into the area, and after that a new channel may even grow through the clot...