Word: venous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 in his leg. Dr. Scott H.M. Driscoll, the Memorial Hospital radiologist who did the venogram, described Nixon's deep venous system as "99 and 44/100% clotted...
...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...