Word: vascularized
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...heart gave out while the jet raced toward Houston. According to Dr. Thain, he died at 1:27 p.m., a half-hour out of Houston airport. Late in the day of the death, [Arelo] Sederberg [the Summa spokesman] was authorized to state that Hughes had died of a "cerebral vascular accident," medicalese for a stroke. But the official autopsy attributed his death to renal (kidney) failure and said nothing about a stroke. The Summa officials did not reconcile this contradiction...
...press conference, Dr. Hickman said: "Mr. Nixon is doing well post-op. He's stable. He's in his room undergoing a normal recovery period. It was an uneventful procedure." Then, six hours after the operation, intensive bleeding, perhaps behind the abdominal cavity, sent Nixon into sudden vascular shock. For three hours doctors battled to restore his vital signs to normal. Said shaken Nixon Aide Ron Ziegler the next day: "We almost lost President Nixon yesterday...
What was unexpected was Nixon's lapse into vascular shock six hours after the operation. Shock generally indicates partial collapse of the circulatory system and therefore an inadequate supply of oxygen to the tissues. This can result from heart attacks, clots in the lung, overwhelming, severe drug reaction, trauma or other causes. In Nixon's case, it was thought that he was suffering a serious loss of blood. Bleeding can occur in any operation when the patient has been treated with anticoagulant drugs and thus has dangerously reduced clotting factors in his blood. Before operating, most surgeons...
When former Missouri Democratic Senator Edward V. Long died last November at 64, his death was attributed to a "cerebral vascular accident" that had "all the appearance of a stroke." Last week it was revealed that Helen Dunlop, the Senator's secretary and close companion for 26 years, had touched off an official probe by charging that his death was actually the result of poisoning...
...last week that as much as $30 billion of the nation's $75 billion medical bill is the result of poor nutrition. The U.S. Department of Agriculture apparently agrees. In a recent report on nutrition it speculated that good eating habits could cut the incidence of heart and vascular diseases by 25%, reduce respiratory infections by 20% and slash arthritis, diabetes and infant mortality by half...