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When these valves become inflamed-it may be from injury, infection, some forms of cancer or simply sluggish blood flow from inactivity-some blood is likely to be trapped in a pocket where it forms a clot. The danger then is that the clot, or thrombus, will begin to travel...
The next move was potentially the most dangerous: if the clot had been as big as the end of a man's thumb, as some are, it could have caused a complete blockage of the great artery through which blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs. The...
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...
Tragic Numbers. Brodeur's work, an expansion of a series of articles for The New Yorker, focuses primarily on the dangers of asbestos fibers, which have long been inhaled in unsafe quantities by workers using this insulating and fire-resistant material. Despite years of warnings by independent medical researchers...
Anticoagulant drugs are often used to keep the clot from growing and therefore allowing it to be reabsorbed or to stay "fixed" to the vein wall, as Nixon's earlier clot has done. Although not in itself a serious ailment, if the deep veins are involved, thrombophlebitis can be...