Word: venogram
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...Nixon's physician of 22 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...
...worried Lungren called in Dr. Wiley F. Barker, an expert in venous-systems diseases and professor of surgery at U.C.L.A., and Dr. Eldon B. Hickman, deputy chief of surgery at Memorial. After consultation and another venogram of their patient, the medicalmen agreed that immediate surgery was essential to keep the clots from breaking off and moving upward to Nixon's heart and lungs. They showed Nixon the venogram, explaining that, as Hickman put it to reporters later, "it was a threat that the clot could become a pulmonary embolus." After discussing his condition with Pat Nixon and, by telephone...
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