Word: thrombi
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...have to remember that blood coagulation is important in the genesis of what we call thrombi, the blood clots that can block the blood vessels and cut off supply to the heart. When we wake up, platelets, the particles in the blood that make thrombi, are particularly adhesive to the vessels. Usually we have an endogenous system - it's called fibrinolysis - to dissolve the thrombi. But in the morning, the activity of our fibrinolytic system is reduced. So we have a greater tendency to make thrombi that can occlude the coronary vessels. This contributes to further reduction of coronary blood...
...Illogical As Bleedings." Most bedrest deaths are caused by big, migrating blood clots which form in veins constricted by the unnatural position. "In the last 300 autopsies on adults in [New York Hospital]," reported Dr. Dock, "15, or 5%, died of pulmonary embolism second ary to thrombi in the legs or pelvis." A little moving around, he asserted, could have saved these people...
Sweet Clover. The remarkable drug known as dicoumarin may even reduce to zero the 6% of post-operative deaths caused by thrombi (fixed blood clots) and emboli (wandering blood clots). Dicoumarin is found in spoiled sweet clover, was originally tracked down as a poison which causes hemorrhages in cows, is now synthesized...
...last few years, thrombi have effectively been treated by heparin-a compound obtained from lungs and livers of animals. Heparin injections cost from $10 to $15 a day, must be dripped into a patient's veins continuously for about two weeks...
Dicoumarin, just as effective as heparin, is far cheaper and may be given by mouth. Dr. Silbert predicted that dicoumarin will soon be used not only as a cure for thrombi, but as a routine preventive in all major operations and confinements. At present it is used in the Mayo Clinic, the University of Wisconsin, and by Drs. Irving Sherwood Wright and Andrew Gabriel Prandoni of Columbia, who made a technical report on it last fortnight...
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