Word: embolus
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...clot will break into smaller particles that then lodge deeper in the brain. At the meeting last week, researchers reported that a tiny corkscrew device, housed in a thin catheter, can snag clots and pull them out without disrupting them--stopping the stroke damage almost instantly. The mechanical embolus removal in cerebral ischemia (MERCI) system restored blood flow in 54% of patients as long as eight hours after initial stroke symptoms appeared...
...medicalmen agreed that immediate surgery was essential to keep the clots from breaking off and moving upward to Nixon's heart and lungs. They showed Nixon the venogram, explaining that, as Hickman put it to reporters later, "it was a threat that the clot could become a pulmonary embolus." After discussing his condition with Pat Nixon and, by telephone, with Daughters Julie Eisenhower and Tricia Cox, Nixon gave his consent to undergo surgery-the first he has ever...
Deeper Danger. When a thrombus does travel, it is called an embolus. The likelihood of an embolus appearing is negligible when the inflamed vein is near the skin's surface; it is vastly greater, however, if the clot forms in one of the large, deep veins. That is what apparently happened in Nixon's case. For some time after its formation in a vein deep in his left leg, the clot stayed in place. There, it caused the intermittent but painful swelling that bothered Nixon on his trip to the Middle East last June and, more severely, during...
Died. Dr. Virginia Apgar, 65, wise, industrious specialist in the treatment of newborn babies and birth defects; of a probable pulmonary embolus; in Manhattan. A graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Apgar later became its first professor of anesthesiology and first female full professor. In 1952 she perfected the Apgar Score, an evaluation of five physical functions-heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and skin color-made within the first minute of a child's life, and again five minutes later. A low score is a prompt identification of a need for special care...
...weakness in her right arm and leg, and some speech difficulty. The trouble, Drs. Alfred J. Luessenhop and William T. Spence decided, was that part of the brain, with an abnormal connection between arteries and veins, was getting too much blood from an enlarged artery. So they wanted an embolus to serve as a stopper in this artery...