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...weeks ago, Nixon's physician of 22 years, Dr. John C. Lungren, ordered new tests, unconvinced that the anticoagulant drug Nixon was taking orally at home was keeping his patient's phlebitis under control. Lungren admitted Nixon to the hospital a second time for further tests and treatment. A venogram, X rays of a vein injected with an iodine compound, revealed clots in Nixon's left leg in areas other than the femoral vein above the knee, where some of his previous clots had formed. The additional clots (doctors could not be certain that they were...
...worried Lungren called in Dr. Wiley F. Barker, an expert in venous-systems diseases and professor of surgery at U.C.L.A., and Dr. Eldon B. Hickman, deputy chief of surgery at Memorial. After consultation and another venogram of their patient, the 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...
...very next day, Nixon was readmitted to the Memorial Hospital Medical Center in Long Beach, when his doctor, John Lungren, was not satisfied with the results of routine tests on his treatment for phlebitis. There was no evidence of new lung clots, but Lungren reported that one major vein in Nixon's left leg was almost totally blocked, and there were several previously undetected clots in his left thigh. Nixon's dosage of anticoagulant drugs was increased, and Lungren said that if this is not successful, surgery might be necessary...
Ronald Ziegler conducted a noninformative press conference: every word on Nixon's hospitalization, down to what he was eating (hospital fare, except for some wheat germ from San Clemente), had to be approved by the patient. His physician, Dr. John Lungren, seemed to delight in being obscure and evasive. After announcing that a blood clot had been discovered in Nixon's right lung, Lungren said that the ex-President's condition was "potentially dangerous but not critical at this time." But he flatly refused to speculate on how long the recuperation would take...
Nixon's lung clot was evidently a small one-only "dime-size," speculated Dr. John Lungren, the ex-President's internist. Lungren and Radiologist Earl K. Dore discovered the clot through two recently refined tests using radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot...