Word: emboli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco's Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center. The strokes may have been caused by blood clots that formed somewhere in or near the artificial heart and then traveled to the brain. According to Cardiologist Fredarick Gobel of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, the risk of such traveling clots, or emboli, is great "whenever you have foreign + materials in the vascular system." To reduce this risk for Haydon, doctors gave him anticoagulants before and after surgery, though this increases the risk of bleeding...