Word: thrombus
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From Rotten Clover. Heparin has had a distinguished history since Schulte's early case, has proved invaluable in a variety of conditions where clotting is a danger, notably after a patient has already had a heart attack or stroke from a thrombus (clot). Heparin's advantage over most rival anticlotting drugs: it acts immediately. Its disadvantages: it is expensive and must be injected under the skin or infused into a vein...
Arteriosclerosis. Far more likely than the problematical spasm as the cause of Eisenhower's stroke is a thrombus. The President has been taking anti-clotting drugs of the coumarin family six days a week ever since his 1955 heart attack. They have been shown to be highly effective in cutting down recurrence of clots caused by embolism (TIME, Feb. 4), but it is not yet certain that they prevent thrombosis...
...Young. When a coronary branch has been narrowed sufficiently to slow the blood to a virtual standstill, a thrombus (clot) will form and block the flow altogether. However, only a minority of heart attacks are fatal, and many are not even detected during the victim's lifetime. Why the difference between a dramatic thrombosis as in the case of President Eisenhower and the individual who sleeps through his heart attack? The answer lies in the gradualness of the process that narrows the coronary artery concerned. If it constricts slowly for months, the heart brings into play its self-repair...
...Critical Hours. The most critical is the period for first the few victim hours of a after the coronary blood attack clot (thrombus) has formed in a coronary artery, cutting off the blood supply to one section of the heart muscle. If the patient is moved too soon after such an attack he may die of any one of a variety of immediate causes: a state of shock, ventricular fibrillation (a disorder of the heart rhythm in which the heart ceases to act as a pump) or, less often, the choking of the heart's action from the leakage...
...several days coronary patients may be kept in an oxygen tent in an effort to reduce strain on the heart and avoid possible complications in the lungs. They also get Dicumarol or a similar anticoagulant which reduces the danger of extension of the thrombus and formation of circulation-blocking clots...