thrombosis
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Research has found that it can take more than six months for professional athletes to return to play after being treated for a deep-vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
On Monday, the Eagles announced he had been diagnosed with a deep-vein thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary emboli.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Hurts has been diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis and a bilateral pulmonary emboli, the statement said, meaning a blood clot has traveled from his legs to his lungs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Senior coroner Professor Fiona Wilcox told Westminster Coroner's Court on Wednesday that Lady Joan did not receive prophylactic anticoagulants at the hospital despite a "very high risk of developing deep vein thrombosis".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Coronary thrombosis," the intern diagnosed, "but that's just an educated guess. In simple language: heart attack."
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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He had previously overcome cancer, a heart attack and two thromboses.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
The U.S. move is warranted, says Gowthami Arepally, a hematologist at the Duke University School of Medicine, given that the constellation of symptoms, cerebral venous sinus thromboses and low platelet counts, is very unusual.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2021
Alan Alda, the Hawkeye Pierce of TV's long-running M*A*S*H, may provoke 100 and some thromboses as a result of the latest Alda-written, Alda-acted movie, The Seduction of Joe Tynan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A second diagnostic advance comes from use of radiopaque dyes, which are injected into arteries leading to the brain: X rays help to locate obstructions to circulation resulting from thromboses and especially aneurysms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Fibrin is liberated, and thromboses occur, especially in the liver.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson
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