Word: clots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the thickening and roughening of the intima is to impede, or even stop, the passage of blood through the artery in which the condition exists. As the volume and surge of the blood decrease, a clot may form, often quite suddenly, around one of the rough projections that has grown on the arterial wall. The clot is a thrombus, the process of its formation is thrombosis, and if it happens in one of the coronary arteries, it is coronary thrombosis (while there are medical distinctions in their precise use, the terms "coronary occlusion" and "cardiac infarction" are generally...
...When a clot has caused a stoppage in a coronary artery, the area of heart muscle fed by that artery dies, just as, for example, the tissue of a finger dies if cut off from its blood supply. The damage is permanent, and its severity depends greatly on the size of the affected artery and the speed and completeness of the occlusion. If the artery in which the clot forms is small enough, a person may live to old age unaware of the thrombosis. If the closing of the artery occurs slowly enough, nearby arteries may grow in size...
...When a blood clot in a coronary artery causes a heart attack, one result may be an aneurysm-something like a big blister-bulging from the heart muscle. Drs. William Likoff and Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital report what is believed to be the first successful operation to remove one. A man of 56, formerly bedridden, has been, able to climb stairs without distress since the operation 15 months...
...pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...
...Trieste's best neurologist and telephoned Rome for the doctor who had operated on Togliatti's skull in 1950. "Venous congestion due to sunstroke," the doctors said in a joint communiqué; language had in it the suggestion that Togliatti had been struck down by a blood clot. It was plainly more than "indisposition," as Togliatti's own doctor let slip some days later. "It must not be forgotten, the state of tension of the honorable Togliatti on that day," said Dr. Mario Spallone, and added, as if trying to put all the blame on recalcitrant Comrade...