Yikes!
Glad I had my shot.
Captain Obvious is now doing scientific studies? Who knew?!
Take more garlic when you have the flu. Among other things it’s a blood thinner.
A peculiar phenomenon might eventually help rapidly and safely clear severe deposits in blood vessels, in an odd manner.
Several drugs have been discovered to act like Drano in the blood vessels, stripping off deposits and sending large, dangerous chunks of plaque into the bloodstream. So why not take advantage of the situation in a non-harmful manner?
The key is artificial blood (oxygen therapeutics). Strange stuff, it carries far more oxygen to tissues than regular blood, but it is tricky in its own right. You want to avoid passing it through internal organs if at all possible.
But what if by combining these two things, you could safely remove large plaque deposits? That is, set up a blood bypass, so the patient’s blood doesn’t travel through a long stretch of heavily plaque-throttled pipe, in say, their leg.
Instead, have the tissues in that area be oxygenated with artificial blood through a secondary system. And add those chemicals that cause catastrophic failure of plaque deposits to the artificial blood. The artificial blood can be thoroughly filtered for them. So the blood vessels are cleaned out thoroughly, until there are no more pieces of plaque floating in it, then the patient’s own blood is redirected back through their own, cleaned blood vessel.
Doing it this way, you don’t need to use enormous amounts of donated blood.
Eventually, if a system like this was mastered, a more complex method could be used to clear interior blood vessels, a small section at a time. An outer tube through which would flow the cleaning solution, and an inner tube that would carry the bypassed blood flow. It would slowly inch its way down the blood vessel, clearing a small section, and taking away its plaque, at a time.