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...years, Dr. John C. Lungren, ordered new tests, unconvinced that the anticoagulant drug Nixon was taking orally at home was keeping his patient's phlebitis under control. Lungren admitted Nixon to the hospital a second time for further tests and treatment. A venogram, X rays of a vein injected with an iodine compound, revealed clots in Nixon's left leg in areas other than the femoral vein above the knee, where some of his previous clots had formed. The additional clots (doctors could not be certain that they were new ones) were found higher...
...surgical procedure doctors carried out on Richard Nixon is relatively common and uncomplicated. Opening Nixon's abdomen just above the groin, Dr. Eldon B. Hickman clamped a 1½-in. serrated plastic clip across the iliac vein from Nixon's left thigh, just above the spot where a clot, discovered last week, had formed. Hickman said later that he could "readily palpate [feel]" the clot during the operation. The teeth of the clip (called a Miles clip, after the physician who invented it in 1962) were closed, creating a sluicelike effect that permits blood-but not large clots...
Some medical experts wondered why the surgeons did not tie off the large vein known as the inferior vena cava. That step could block the passage of clots that might form later on higher in the left iliac vein or in Nixon's right leg or in tributary veins from the left leg. It is not known how extensively during surgery the doctors examined the inferior vena cava for possible clots...
...more capitalistic vein, "Photos by Jill Krementz", favorite photographer to the New York Times, at the library of the Dorchester campus of UMass, through...
...protecting Arabs and Iranians alike in the Persian Gulf, from which 86% of the non-Communist world's crude shipments originate. The gulf at its neck narrows until the supertanker channel is only twelve miles wide at the Strait of Hormuz, which Premier Hoveida calls "our jugular vein." Iran worries that dissident forces, like the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman, which is currently fighting Sultan Qabus in Oman, could block the strait by sinking a supertanker. The Shah's response has been a pride of military powers so vast that he not only can neutralize...