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...very next day, Nixon was readmitted to the Memorial Hospital Medical Center in Long Beach, when his doctor, John Lungren, was not satisfied with the results of routine tests on his treatment for phlebitis. There was no evidence of new lung clots, but Lungren reported that one major vein in Nixon's left leg was almost totally blocked, and there were several previously undetected clots in his left thigh. Nixon's dosage of anticoagulant drugs was increased, and Lungren said that if this is not successful, surgery might be necessary...
...Jugular Vein. Some of Iran's Arab neighbors wonder whether the Shah really needs all that expensive hardware and worry about his ambitions. "With each generation of weaponry," one Pentagon expert observes, "his defense perimeter expands." In answer, Iranians point out that they share a 1,100-mile border with the Soviet Union; and the Russians, they argue, have never really given up their interest in gaining control of Iran's oilfields some day. Iran also has an inimical and testy neighbor in Iraq, which has been massively supplied with Soviet weaponry. The forces of the two states...
Nixon has been troubled by phlebitis -inflammation of a vein or veins-in his left leg on and off for ten years. In such cases, the medical problems begin with the valves in the veins that serve to keep blood flowing back to the heart...
Deeper Danger. When a thrombus does travel, it is called an embolus. The likelihood of an embolus appearing is negligible when the inflamed vein is near the skin's surface; it is vastly greater, however, if the clot forms in one of the large, deep veins. That is what apparently happened in Nixon's case. For some time after its formation in a vein deep in his left leg, the clot stayed in place. There, it caused the intermittent but painful swelling that bothered Nixon on his trip to the Middle East last June and, more severely, during...
...evidently a small one-only "dime-size," speculated Dr. John Lungren, the ex-President's internist. Lungren and Radiologist Earl K. Dore discovered the clot through two recently refined tests using radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot had settled there in a small artery...