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To: DiogenesLamp

I apologize then. I misinterpreted your post.

I remember the post. I did not watch the video. Although, I am pretty sure thats not how clots look. If they slid around (so you could pull them out) people would be dropping dead front strokes all over the place.

I was taught that they adhere to the walls of the veins, like a goopy cement that hardens as the body reacts to them. That’s what takes so long to have them dissolved. Other times, the body just builds new pathways for the blood.

I saw THAT on my own imaging. The clot is still there, but my amazing body build enough veins around it that my blood flow isn’t slowed down.

Arteries that big (in the picture) don’t usually get clogged…of the person would die long before it got to that point. Sometimes arteries coming out of the heart will dissect. What you get there is a sleeve-like action where the inner part of the artery becomes detached and is stripped as the blood flow gets under it.

You now know the entire amount of my medical expertise on clotting.

I worked at a hospital and I worked closely with surgeons and the ER. But my field was in telecommunications and networking. I watched a lot of stuff. And I asked a lot of questions. But my anatomy classes were pretty much limited to the back seat of my 1970 Maverick.


70 posted on 02/19/2024 11:59:40 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Okay, well thanks. I’ll have to see if I can find that video again, but I may have to search through 3 years of my postings to find it.


72 posted on 02/19/2024 1:55:40 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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