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unusual facts about blood clot



He Ran All the Way

He died less than a year later, at age thirty-nine, from coronary thrombosis due to a blood clot blocking an artery in his heart.

Mega City Four

It was announced on 7 December 2006 that Wiz had died at St George's Hospital, Tooting, South London from a blood clot on the brain on 6 December.

Muhammad Afrizal

He was taken to Royal Hospital in Jakarta, and later transferred to Christian University of Jakarta UKI Hospital, where he died four days after brain surgery to remove a blood clot.

Souleymane Oulare

After his only league game for Stoke against Northampton Town in 2002 Oulare was diagnosed with a life-threatening blood clot in his lungs.


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Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis

Thrombolysis (removal of the blood clot with "clot buster" medication) has been described, either systemically by injection into a vein or directly into the clot during angiography.

Orteig Prize

April 16 - A test flight of Byrd's $100,000 Fokker C-2 monoplane, America results in a nose-over crash, resulting in Byrd suffering a broken wrist, pilot Floyd Bennett breaking his collarbone and leg, and flight engineer George Otto Noville requiring surgery for a blood clot.

Surgicel

Surgicel is a hemostatic agent (blood-clot-inducing material) made of an oxydized cellulose polymer (the unit is polyanhydroglucuronic acid), manufactured by Johnson and Johnson's Ethicon subsidiary.

Terry Riley: Requiem for Adam

Adam Harrington, age 16, died of heart failure caused by a blood clot, sustained while hiking with his family on Mount Diablo, a 3,849 feet mountain in the San Francisco Bay Area, on Easter Sunday, 1995.

Tomáš Fleischmann

After returning to the Czech Republic in the off-season, Fleischmann was found to have developed a blood clot in his leg due to Deep vein thrombosis from the cross-Atlantic flight and would miss the pre-season and the start of the 2009–10 season.