Green blood?
Mr Spock & Al Gore could be "blood-brothers". But don't be fooled. There is a major difference between the ears...
Posted on 06/09/2007 4:58:44 PM PDT by melt
The man emulated Star Trek's Mr Spock - the Enterprise's science officer who supposedly had green Vulcan blood.
In this case, the unusual colour of the 42-year-old's blood was down to the migraine medication he was taking.
The man's leg surgery went ahead successfully and his blood returned to normal once he had eased off the drug.
Dark green
The patient had been taking large doses of sumatriptan - 200 milligrams a day.
This had caused a rare condition called sulfhaemoglobinaemia, where sulphur is incorporated into the oxygen-carrying compound haemoglobin in red blood cells.
Describing the case in the Lancet, the doctors, led by Dr Alana Flexman from St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, wrote: "The patient recovered uneventfully, and stopped taking sumatriptan after discharge.
"When seen five weeks after his last dose, he was found to have no sulfhaemoglobin in his blood."
The man had needed urgent surgery because he had developed a dangerous condition in his legs after falling asleep in a sitting position.
The surgeons performed urgent fasciotomies - limb-saving procedures which involve making surgical incisions to relieve pressure and swelling caused by the man's condition, known as compartment syndrome.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Green blood?
Mr Spock & Al Gore could be "blood-brothers". But don't be fooled. There is a major difference between the ears...
I even checked, but I'll "match any word" from now on.
sidebar: see also the book “Underhanded Bridge”.
Green blood. Now that’s a weird story.
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