Cheney blood clot

Doctors found a blood clot in Cheney's leg, or so says CNN. He's apparently back at work.

Discuss.

I'll try to find a link.

 

We need to see the MRI before we can render an opinion.

 

Boom, hadn't you better get cracking on an official SportsJournalists.com letter of condolence?

Forge my signature.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0530750720070305

 

Don't you have to have blood running through your veins to get a blood clot?

 

Perhaps this is why a guy with a history of circulatory problems doesn't fly around the world more often.

 

Never cheered for a clot before. Oh well, there's always a first time.

 

Can we get DocTalk in here to expound upon the potential consequences, healing time, etc.? I for one don't wish on Cheney, although as a person I find him repugnant. Bad Karma, folks. Bad Karma.

 

Not so long ago, patients with blood clots in their legs would require hospitalization for intravenous heparin to thin their blood as they were transitioned to another blood thinner (warfarin). It takes a few days for warfarin to get to therapeutic levels, so the immediate thinning of heparin was required. Newer medications like Lovenox are injected subcutaneously, like insulin, and can be taken twice a day at home to immediately thin the blood, while the warfarin is starting to take effect.

The major complication of a leg blood clot is the potenital for it to break loose and travel to the lung causing a pulmonary embolus, which can be deadly.

 

Thank you Doc.

And everyone else...remember....

Karma is a bitch.

 

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Dick Cheney -- the Keith Richards of politics.