Word: clots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychological ordeal suffered by the former First Lady has been far worse. Several times last week Pat Nixon visited the bedside of her husband as he underwent treatment for a blood clot in the lung-not quite two months after his humiliating resignation. Now she shared his exile, a bitter reward for a life of self-effacing, tireless and often joyless devotion to the relentless demands of a unique political career...
...conference: every word on Nixon's hospitalization, down to what he was eating (hospital fare, except for some wheat germ from San Clemente), had to be approved by the patient. His physician, Dr. John Lungren, seemed to delight in being obscure and evasive. After announcing that a blood clot had been discovered in Nixon's right lung, Lungren said that the ex-President's condition was "potentially dangerous but not critical at this time." But he flatly refused to speculate on how long the recuperation would take...
Until early last week, Richard Nixon's troubles with blood clots seemed confined to his sometimes painfully swollen left leg. The announcement that a clot had evidently passed through his heart and lodged in his right lung suggested that his life may indeed have been imperiled by his condition, if only momentarily. But the presence of such obstructions in the bloodstream is far more common than was generally realized only a few years ago and it is now evident that in only relatively few cases are they truly dangerous...
When these valves become inflamed-it may be from injury, infection, some forms of cancer or simply sluggish blood flow from inactivity-some blood is likely to be trapped in a pocket where it forms a clot. The danger then is that the clot, or thrombus, will begin to travel toward the heart and lungs...
...target areas are the legs (phlebitis in 1964 and 1974, two knee injuries in 1960, foot injury in 1952) and the respiratory system (pneumonia in 1973 and as a child in 1917), with the ominous possibility that the two areas could be connected by a fatal blood clot traveling from leg to lung...