1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家Carolyn PresuttiJanuary 01, 2013WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is starting off the new year in a hospital with a blood clot. Clinton, a former first lady, ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. Charles Eyler knows all about blood clots. Hes had two.
2、 “Theyre painful, I mean really painful. Really bad pain,” Eyler said.And now, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has her second blood clot.The first, in her leg, occurred during travel as First Lady fourteen years ago. Then Sunday, the diagnosis of a new clot - this one in her head.Most blood clots
3、 occur in the leg. They can be fatal if the clot dislodges and moves to the lung, where it blocks blood flow and strains the heart.But Clintons doctors say her blood clot was found in a vein “between the brain and the skull, behind her right ear.”“Blood pools and it doesnt flow. Blood that doesnt fl
4、ow clots. Thats a good thing when its outside the blood vessels. Not a good thing when its inside the blood vessels,” said Dr. Ben Wedro, who works in a Wisconsin trauma center.Clinton was admitted to a New York Hospital Sunday. Shes on blood thinners to dissolve the clot so it does not cause a stro
5、ke or neurological damage.Eylers doctor, John Ricotta, chairs vascular surgery at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. He says Clintons extended hospital stay is not unusual.“They want to be sure they dont overshoot or undershoot, and they want to be sure that she is not going to suffer a bleeding co
6、mplication while they are adjusting the dose,” Ricotta said.Clinton is known as the most-traveled secretary of state in US history, flying more than 1 1/2 million kilometers to 112 different countries. But her December was difficult.Secretary Clinton was last seen in public in Belfast on December 7.
7、 She returned to the U.S. battling a severe stomach virus. A few days later, dehydrated, she fainted and suffered a concussion.Clinton is winding down as Secretary of State and deciding what her next political move might be. Whispers of a presidential run in 2016 could be temporarily silenced now, as doctors further assess her health. 高考资源网版权所有，侵权必究！