(TheBlaze/AP) Blood clots like the one that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is being treated for following her recent concussion can occur for a host of reasons. But how serious a clot is depends on where it is and why it formed. A Clinton aide would not say where hers is located, making definitive assessments about her case difficult.
What they are: Blood pools and thickens into a clot after an injury or because of a heart problem, clogged arteries or other condition. Clots also can break off and travel to another part of the body.
Where they occur: In leg veins (called deep vein thrombosis) or in blood vessels in the neck, brain or lungs. Leg clots are a common risk after someone has been bedridden. You might also have heard of the risk for blood clots in the legs for those sitting on long flights. Clots are most dangerous when they travel to the lungs, a potentially life-threatening situation, or to the brain, where they can cause a stroke.
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Risk factors: High blood pressure, diabetes, birth control pills, pregnancy, stroke, recent surgery, prolonged sitting, circulation problems and heart problems — especially an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation — raise the chances of developing a blood clot.
Treatment: Sometimes a blood thinner such as warfarin (Coumadin) is prescribed to allow the clot to dissolve by itself over time and prevent new ones from forming.
Watch this AP report regarding Clinton’s condition:
This CNN report features Dr. Sanjay Gupta who speculates on Clinton’s blood clot:
This story was written by AP Chief Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione. Featured image via Shutterstock.com.
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Metallicat
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:44amIf a concussion can end the career of a NFL quarterback,then it should be the definitive end to a political career. we dont need anymore brain dead politicians in Washington, being led around by the nose by those with an anti American agenda,like we have now with Obama.
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Dkoonz
Dec. 31, 2012 at 1:20pmI think blood clots can also effect the brain especialy the part that holds memories of Benghazi.
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mwhaley
Dec. 31, 2012 at 2:38pmThis type of clot is also know as a benghazih thrombosis. It mostly occurs while circling in an air craft while being under enemy fire.
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Tom70
Jan. 2, 2013 at 10:06amNot serious enough if your a progressive politician or this president. I guess we could include tzar’s.
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MissEllaneous
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:42amI don’t think anyone is debating the seriousness of a blood clot.
I think a lot of us question the validity of her ailment. She seems to have the time and strength to do everything else but testify.
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jessieH
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:33amAnybody buying this crap? I don’t.
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cloudsofwar
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:42ammaybe she’s taking birth control pills. haha. she’s not going in front of congress to testifie. what is she hiding? her own failure. and she wants to be POTUS in 2016.
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patriotteapress
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:31amShe maybe having elective surgery before O care kicks in.
Oh wait, I forgot it doesn’t apply to the ruling class! My bad. What was I thinking.
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WaterTheTree
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:22amActually, I was thinking that “fainting” was an outmoded female stereotype, one that will come back to haunt her when she runs in 2016. I never once heard someone ask the bigoted question “is a black man able to be president”, but I can amagine a lot of people who were willing to vote for a woman just because of her genetic makeup might have doubts about a woman who “faints”.
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IndyGuy
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:31am“Just How Serious Can a Blood Clot Be?”…Apparently just serious enough to keep you from testifying in front of Congress…
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IndyGuy
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:36amPerhaps we are seeing the true wickedness of Obamacare…Doctors that are beholding to Government that will say anything to keep their jobs…The Hippocratic Oath is long gone…
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cloudsofwar
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:47am@ indyguy…. in this new America she could still be elected to POTUS in 2016. the old guard is gone for the most part and now we are living in the Socialist States of America. RIP USA. so sad to see what our country has become. obama and his henchmen have won.
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CPLGEORGE
Dec. 31, 2012 at 11:46amI don’t think she is running, except from the possibility of a prison sentence and total collapse of the Obama administration.
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Tri-ox
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:12amReal blood clots can be quite serious – fake blood clots resulting from fake concussions, not so much.
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Uechi
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:10amI’ll give the lying bimbo the benefit of the doubt. Blood clots can cause heart attacks, and strokes among other things. As dangerous as they are this women ( I use the term loosely) is far more dangerous to the heaalth of this Nation then a clot.
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chucksue351
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:19amwe can only hope for the worst
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ForMyKidsVA
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:01amI call BS
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Dabbobean
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:59amI still call BS…….she needed to come up with something. She very well may have a clot in her leg probably from lying on her a$$ for the last 3 few weeks drinking grey goose martinis……she is overweight ,she’s older, and drinks too much, she gonna have some health problems but this should never have prevented her from testifying on Benghazi……..this kind of condition would not keep a busboy or a gas station attendant out of work for three weeks…..Clinton is a liar and a scammer and has proved that again and again over her parasitic career in public service.
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chucksue351
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:20amex cellent post
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objectivetruth
Dec. 31, 2012 at 1:58pmActually it could keep anyone out of work for awhile.I don’t have a problem with whether she actually has a blood clot or not.It may be convienent or not.Not all problems with head spinal injuries show up instantly.Especially closed head injuries.What I have a problem with, is her either not testifying or failing to call a date to testify.Contrary to public opinion depositions can be taken in a hospital provided you are actually healthy and alert enough.Why hasn’t this option been explored unless of couse she is truly trying to dodge?
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ldaopines
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:59amShe’s too busy doing wine tasting in Australia.
She has an unobserved faint/concussion with no hospitalization.
Now an unspecific blood clot where everyone’s left guessing where it is.
Question: Will Hillary ever testify or is 2016 just that important? It’s a shame that I can’t take politicians like Hillary at their word, but I can’t. I simply can’t. Lies are too frequent, from sniper fire to Chelsea jogging around the Twin Towers on 911. If Hillary is this frail, that should be a primary consideration going forward.
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Robert Hawk
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:52amits not uncommon to have blood clots after one has a head injury, however they usually occur within hours of the injury and most are fatal. That said Ms. Clinton experienced a blood clot almost two weeks after here head injury which seems somewhat fishy. None the less, if she has actually developed a blood clot in the blood vessels which feed the brain, it can effect her long term memory or even cause death.
Knowing the Obama administration as we do, I would suspect this is simply a soap opera moment, which was chosen to allow one of the players to move out of the scene and keep her away from testifying to congress, She undoubtedly knows something about the Middle East activities which would possibly expose Mr Obama to an impeachable offense. Most likely it has something to do with the August 2012 intelligence finding Mr Obama signed, which ordered the elimination of Assad.
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DougHuffman
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:50amLike Litvenko, her Po-210 pill works slowly.
μολων λαβέ molṑn labé ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE “From my cold, dead hands” works for me.
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jd9215
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:47amObama trying to silence all witnesses, just didn’t quite succeed with Hillary. Yet.
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Jaimo
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:44amI read somewhere that Bill and Hill were on some island with a bunch of muckity mucks for the New Year. How is it that she’s in New York.
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dublinthewagons
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:47amBill wouldn’t take Hillary anywhere, now that dog fighting is illegal.
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essence428
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:35amRumor is: She was in a plane crash 3 weeks ago in Iran. Here is yet another cover-up by them, but everything they tell us is not real anyway. And also, “Concussion” is the new buzz word with them. Hillary, football players, etc. It’s all a game they play with us. Nothing is real. Once you understand that nothing being reported is real, it does change the game. I would be more apt to believe the plane crash story than what is actually being reported after the cover-up fiasco that happened in Benghazi.
Source: http://www.rumormillnews.com
Sorcha Faal: Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret US Mission To Iran
A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [photo 2nd left] was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed nearly 3 weeks ago in the Iranian city of Ahvaz near the Iraqi border.
Iranian intelligence agents quoted in this GRU report confirm that the C-12 Huron aircraft is still in their possession in Ahvaz, but will only admit that the plane was “forced to land because of technical problems.”
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yougottabekidding
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:23amIn clintons case we can only hope.
Would be poetic justice for 4 that died at her absolute lack of leadership
The red phone rang that night and no one answered it!
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yougottabekidding
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:28am9/11/2012 remember Benghazi !!!!!!!
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Via Dolorosa
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:21amI had a good friend (34 years old) die from a blood clot that formed in her leg a few years back. When you undergo surgery now they will put those elastic wraps/stockings on your upper thighs to help keep the risk minimized.
I’m not a Clinton (either of them) fan however we should pray for any person’s healing if they are at risk for something that could be so serious.
Yall please have a sliver of compassion for people – regardless of who it is.
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yougottabekidding
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:44amHere’s my sliver of compassion.
Put her and a doctor of her choice and everyone up and down the chain of command in that “safe house” with no American hero’s or military style weapons and tell then you’ll be back.
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Free_Thought
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:51amIt was a valiant and classy attempt at humanity there but as you can see it falls on deaf ears around here. Wishing death upon someone is a real nice way to go. I think allen west, bachmann, santorum, akin, mourdock and mcconnell are vile pieces of filth but wishing death upon them is more disgusting than anything they have done. You all have a nice warm seat available next to the devil. But it was nice to see at least one conservative with a brain and was raised properly.
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yougottabekidding
Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:46amFree_Thought
Here’s to your BS about humanity. Tell that to the four dead Americans in Benghazi that pleaded for help, and were ignored. You spew your socialist crap and enjoy it cause you could very well be next! They did not care for members of their own team, what do you as an insignificant piece of cow dung think they will do for you
And I hope you die the same painful death they had. Ask Ambassador Chris Stevens how it felt to have all that compassion as he was being gang raped!
You disgust me and all real Americans!
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yougottabekidding
Dec. 31, 2012 at 11:15amFree_Thought
PS
Change your icon to brick in the wall! It suits you belter then dark side of the moon, even though you will never see the light!
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yougottabekidding
Dec. 31, 2012 at 11:46amFree_Thought
I’ll give you one more thought,
No one said anything about them dying.
I said put them in the same “SAFE HOUSE”. Do you know the meaning of that? Your gov said it was safe.
You, on the other hand, are saying it is a death wish! You are making the leap.
Why is that?
Because you know they were put in a life threatening position and left there to die! So in essence I want them to die. Your logic!
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Southernsoul
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:19amWow. just imagine having all of those health problems just before you have to testify before Congress on your illeghal activities that might put you and the President in prison. Its almost unbelievable.
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1776freedomofspeech
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:49amInteresting…….and extremely coincidental………smoke and mirrors?
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CABERNETQHS
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:51amI don’t wish ill on Hillary, she did suffer mildly being married to Bill. That being said,a life threatening blood clot would most likely be the “cause” for your doctor appointment. Or even an ER trip. I can’t guess what she has but,you rarely just “find” it during a follow up exam unless it’s simply phlebitis which can be a blood clot in a vein as opposed to an artery. Phlebitis is not life threatening. It still smells fishy. I cry BS! Unless she dies or something, I’ve been wrong before.
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bannedfromCNN
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:11amBlood clots are super-serious, especially when they occur just before you are to testify before Congress.
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RepubliCorp
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:52ambut it will be all better before 2016
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Gonzo
Dec. 31, 2012 at 2:03pmBeing trapped in a consulate building guarded by Libyan militia members ain’t no cake walk either.
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chips1
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:11amThey never mention that a blood clot in the brain forces your **** to get larger.
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Southernsoul
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:16amReally? Does that mean Moochelle has a blood clot, too?
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DougHuffman
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:44amNo, ‘pelvic engorgement’ (that used to be the euphemism) perhaps, but no periodic hemorrhaging.
μολων λαβέ molṑn labé ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE “From my cold, dead hands” works for me.
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chips1
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:08amNothing a 5K run wouldn’t fix.
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Cloth Stews
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:11amAcronym Big Lie Of Other Distractions Creating Lack Of Testimony.
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BODYBAG
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:00amHilary’s blood clot has a name —— Barry
Hilary’s blood clot is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC
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DadRocked
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:23am“A Clinton aide would not say where hers is located, making definitive assessments about her case difficult.”
Hey clinton aide, Dr. BodyBag has found it!
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Zipit
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:00amJUST HOW SERIOUS CAN A BLOOD CLOT BE? I’ve been told that it can totally wipe out your entire memory!!!!! “Selectively”, of course! On the other hand, “I have no recollection of that happening”…..
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DougHuffman
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:00amHag Hillary should have been hospitalized years ago, she would have but for ALL the state mental hospitals being long closed. Put some ice on it.
μολων λαβέ molṑn labé ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE “From my cold, dead hands” works for me.
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Zipit
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:56am” Put some ice on it.” That’s Bills advice!
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lynnissmart
Dec. 31, 2012 at 8:58amWhat I’m thinking is really mean…..can’t say it!
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Zipit
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:03amGoat head!
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RushEcho2
Dec. 31, 2012 at 9:21am“Her Thighness”, Mark Levin
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