Word: clots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. THE REV. MAC CHARLES JONES, 47, Baptist minister and bold architect of the National Council of Churches' efforts to investigate the burning of rural black churches throughout the South and awaken public outrage at the arson; of a blood clot; in Dallas...
...Cutting the risk of BLOOD CLOTS. Patients who have had more than one blood clot can dramatically reduce their chances of getting another by using the anticoagulant Coumadin--provided they stay on it permanently. Today most patients use the thinner just six months...
...this point that TPA has proved so effective. If given within three hours of the stroke's onset, the clot buster can interrupt the brain's panicked reaction. Damage may be kept so limited that it is imperceptible. Ideally, doctors would like to inject the drug within 90 minutes of the initial attack, underscoring once again the need for stroke suspects to get to an emergency room quickly...
Even stroke victims who, for one reason or another, cannot be given TPA can increase their chances of survival and recovery by getting to an emergency room swiftly. Doctors can still give them blood thinners that may dislodge a stroke-causing clot. The outcome of some bleeding strokes can also be markedly improved by surgical repair of the blood vessel that is leaking into the brain...
...neuroprotective agents now being studied have the added benefit of being effective whether the stroke is caused by a clot or by internal bleeding. So far, however, they have worked only in experiments with laboratory animals, where they could be given within minutes after a stroke was induced. Clinical trials are under way to see whether, as with TPA, administering these drugs shortly after the stroke's occurrence produces better results...