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...Late-lingering worries that the blood clot that almost killed Summer Tan as a two-year-old might have had lasting effects were lost when Mrs. John Galbreath's great bay horse galloped down the stretch at Hialeah to put away Calumet Farms's Bardstown by three lengths and win the $60,900 McLennan Handicap...
...shutdown in a brain artery by a clot,, called a thrombosis if the clot forms at the site, or an embolism if the clot is formed elsewhere-usually the heart-and travels through the arteries to the brain...
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...