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...Goodwin told the Louisiana Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, are extremely common. In their most dramatic and catastrophic form, they are called pulmonary embolisms, and they may be almost as common as the single heart attack that proves quickly fatal. Their mechanism is similar-a blood clot traveling through the veins, usually from a leg, blocks one of the great arteries carrying blood from the heart to the lungs-and their effects are just as deadly...
...question the bill. Even when it seems too big, they shut up and pay up. Not Mrs. Helen Clark, a lawyer who likes to get what she pays for. When Manhattan's Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals billed her $701.23 after eleven days of treatment for a blood clot in her leg, the figure struck her as high, and she asked for an itemized bill certified by a hospital official. Three years of legal hassles began...
...owns a great rural manor and he is undeniably gentry, but he is also a ruddy-faced, curly-haired, country clot. He snores in church, he eats with his fingers. He drinks and drinks and drinks some more from great pewter tank ards; when angered, he absentmindedly dashes beer into the face of a bulldog. He grabs young wenches by the backs of their skirts and topples them onto piles of new-mown hay. He is up to his pointed chin in geese, cattle, ducks, pigs, horses, and a yelping nation of dogs. Mornings, he can be found asleep...
Classical hemophilia has now been renamed hemophilia A, because in 1952 a boy in England was found to be suffering from what had seemed to be the same disease, but his trouble was actually caused by lack of clotting Factor IX. This affliction is now called hemophilia B. It is transmitted the same way as hemophilia A, but the two diseases can be distinguished by the fact that blood from a hemophilia A victim, which contains Factor IX, will clot blood from a hemophilia B victim. A hemophilia B's blood, with its Factor VIII, will make...
When a blood clot formed behind the retina of his left eye in 1958, Bob Hope, then 55, hardly cut back his activities at all. Doctors feared a partial loss of sight. But Hope sprang eternal, and the danger seemed to pass-until a month ago. Now Bob has checked into San Francisco's Children's Hospital. Though the actual treatment-powerful light beams precisely focused on the eye to dissolve the clot-is only minutes long, Hope will be sidelined for about two weeks. That means he can't do his Dec. 13 TV show...