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...were initially afraid that this dose of TPA wouldn't do the job, because a clot that goes to the pulmonary arteries is much bigger [than one in the arteries of the heart,]" Goldhaber said...
...Samuel Z. Goldhaber '72, an assistant professor of medicine, a group of doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital gave a drug called Tissue Plasminogen Activator (TPA) to 40 patients with blood clots in their lungs, and it quickly broke up the clots in 37 of them...
...Although TPA has been tested in several thousand heart attack victims around the world, this study represents the first time it has been given to patients with lung clots, called pulmonary embolisms...
Although it worked effectively on most lung-clot victims, TPA also caused serious internal bleeding in six percent of the patients. Goldhaber said that more, larger-scale trials would be necessary before the Food and Drug Administration would consider approving the drug for widespread...
...Jackson is away," barked the TPA marshall. Bogart Jackson sauntered up to the ball, smiling at the memory of all the wayward three-irons he had hit on the practice range. Thwack, and Bogart Jackson was striding down the fairway, grinning at the knowledge that his characteristic fade placed him in an ideal position to go for the flagstick and had avoided the water on the right...