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clot

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(physiology)
A semisolid coagulum of blood or lymph.
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para]]Runners in the upcoming Allscripts Tobacco Road Marathon can hit the trail to help raise funds to Stop the Clot and support the educational efforts of the National Blood Clot Alliance.
The National Blood Clot Alliance And Allscripts Tobacco Road Marathon Team Up To Stop The Clot
Central to NBCA's mission is the need to equip the public with the knowledge to ask their doctors proactively if they might be at risk for a blood clot.
Two Organizations, One Common Cause
NBCA will apply these funds to increase awareness about blood clots that form in a person's leg (deep vein thrombosis or DVT) and blood clots that travel to a person's lung (pulmonary embolism or PE).
CDC Awards the National Blood Clot Alliance Funding to Expand Public Awareness about Blood Clots
People who are hospitalized (greater than or equal to three or more days) for acute illness have more than a ten-fold increased risk of developing a blood clot.
National Blood Clot Alliance Launches New Online Support Community for People Affected by Blood Clots in Conjunction With World Thrombosis Day
Scientists measured the clot retriever's value by assessing the patients' status 90 days after their stroke.
Snagging clots upgrades stroke care: device threaded up to the brain can unblock jammed arteries
Kate was rushed to hospital and diagnosed with a blood clot on her lung - also known as a pulmonary embolism - and a deep vein thrombosis in her leg.
Air campaign backed by blood clot sufferer
In reality, two thirds of blood clots occur in hospital or 90 days following discharge.
Asking the experts could save your life; FEEDBACK
There is no technique to predict when a clot in a large leg vein might abruptly migrate to the lungs.
Long flights pose blood clot risk
The clot "did not result in a stroke or neurological damage," doctors said in (http://www.
Hillary Clinton Blood Near Brain, But No Neurological Damage: Doctors
Dr Hosni says that a patient who has just had a total knee replacement (TKR) should spend at least ten days in hospital, in case he develops a blood clot in a deep vein, usually in the leg.
Venous blood clots can kill
She describes the moment the clot was found in her lungs as "the scariest moment in my life".
Could you be at risk of clots? Even super-fit young athletes can have their lives threatened by blood clots. LISA SALMON discovers why they form and who's at risk
The author postulates that the hyperhomocysteinemia predisposed this patient to clot formation in the left internal jugular vein and this in turn led to the development of the Meniere's symptoms.
Hyperhomocysteinemia and left internal jugular vein thrombosis with Meniere's symptom complex

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