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...steps to the door of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Suddenly he felt a stabbing pain in his chest; he broke out in a cold sweat, gasped for breath. His colleagues rushed him off to bed. A few days after this heart attack they found that a blood clot had formed in one of the chambers of his heart...
Several days after, while still very sick, the young doctor felt an "agonizing pain" in his legs; they turned cold and blue. The clot had been dislodged from his heart, had traveled along the aorta (main heart artery) till it became stuck at the point where the artery branched in two, low in his back, just above his legs. Calling his nurse, the doctor told her he was doomed, reminded her of a patient who had the same kind of embolism, lost his legs and died...
They gave him a local anesthetic, cut open the arteries high on each leg, broke up the blood clot with a special probe, then sucked out the pieces with a long, slender tube. As soon as his blood vessels were stitched up, the patient was given transfusions and large injections of heparin, a liver extract which prevents clotting. Immediately after the operation, said Drs. Ravdin and Wood, "the color and temperature of the right leg returned to normal." His left leg recovered more slowly. For almost two weeks after the operation, heparin was constantly dripped into his veins...
...confused with embolism. A thrombus stays in one place; an embolus, which might be a blood clot, or a pocket of air or oil, moves through the blood stream. If an embolus settles down, it becomes a thrombus...
...while working 15 hours a day, Dr. Tilney was struck by cerebral thrombosis (blood clot in the brain).* For six weeks he lost the power of speech. But his mind was as keen as ever, and he gave his colleagues detailed notes on the course of his disease. The devoted doctors at the Institute took turns sleeping in his house every night, came over in a band of five to carry his heavy, inert body from his study to his bedroom. Within a few months Dr. Tilney taught himself to scribble with his left hand, in six months wrote...