Posts Tagged: brain ischemia

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Jahi McMath Attorney: “She’s in very bad shape”

Jahi McMath body moved

One day after 13-year-old brain dead Jahi MacMath was moved from a California children's hospital to an undisclosed location, her family and lawyer finally concedes her situation is hopeless.

"Right now, we don't know if she's going to make it," said attorney Christopher Dolan.

On Friday, a judge ruled the family could take the deceased eighth grader from Children's Hospital Oakland to an undisclosed location. But Dolan admits the body is too badly deteriorated from decay and failing organs to save it.

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Medical Minute: Blood Clot

Hillary Clinton blood clot

There is sad news to report today. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized over the weekend with a blood clot.

A blood clot is a lump of red blood cells gelled together.

Mrs. Clinton fell at home and suffered a concussion earlier this month. She has not been seen publicly in 3 weeks. Doctors discovered the blood clot when they ran follow-up tests this weekend.

Clinton was immediately hospitalized and administered blood thinners to dissolve the clot (thrombolytics) and/or to prevent other clots from forming (anticoagulants).

Mrs. Clinton may have had a blood clot in her lung that traveled up her leg after being bedridden for 3 weeks. But the clot could have formed in her brain after she fell.

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