Most nights during the holidays, the streets surrounding the Clot house were cluttered with wide-eyed pilgrims.
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This would buy the brain time until clot-busting drugs could be given in hospital.
The most impressive experimental drug Schering is developing is an anti-clot agent to prevent heart attacks.
Germany's Paion is developing a clot-buster originally found in the venom of vampire bats.
In some instances giving patients the clot-busting drugs could make damage to the brain worse.
Drugs like aspirin and clopidogrel (Plavix, NYSE:BMY) prevent platelets from clumping together into a clot.
When he went to a hospital, doctors found he had a clot in a lung, she said.
Treatment sometimes requires hospitalization to dissolve the clot and try and reduce the risk of other clots developing.
And nobody knows exactly what the trigger might be or how it is translated biochemically into a clot.
Dominating the market for clot-busting technology is Possis Medical (nasdaq: POSS - news - people ).
One is to pair a better clot-buster with a technique for selecting patients most likely to benefit from it.
Even though I grew up a mile away from the Clot house, I didn't visit it until my 30s.
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New clot-busting drugs allow some stroke patients to make a full recovery if treated within three hours of their attack.
Bill Clot died of cancer in 2007 and his grown son, after soldiering on through 2008, decided to end the tradition.
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During childhood, hemiplegia is often caused by a stroke, like Peter's, when a bleed or clot damages part of the brain.
Its device uses a high-speed jet at the tip of a catheter to wash out a clot and then vacuum it out.
The average clot size of those who smoked a cigarette in the six hours before their heart attack was 23 square millimetres.
The drugs work by blocking an enzyme called factor 10a that helps spur the production of a crucial clot-promoting protein called thrombin.
Moore turned and walked away, the clot of reporters turning in unison.
But we need to find out why some people bleed and how to reduce this to increase the effectiveness of clot-busting treatment.
After that, we took the kids to the Clot house every winter.
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They were also high in those taking aspirin which, counterintuitively, is often prescribed to reduce clot formation and thus prevent heart attacks.
When I was a kid in Miami, the Clot house was on my radar, of course, but mostly as a place to avoid.
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Copies of top-selling medicines like Amgen 's Epogen, for anemia, or the clot-buster Lovenox, made by Sanofi-Aventis, could be the new me-too drugs.
In those who had smoked a cigarette between six and 24 hours before their attack the average clot size was 12.5 square millimetres.
He was given medicine intravenously to relieve the brain clot, and electric shocks were used to revive him but there was no substantial response.
Researchers now believe that up to 85% of heart attacks occur when arterial plaques suddenly rupture, spilling toxic substances and triggering a massive clot.
Their hope is that such a drug would be precious to patients with ischemic strokes and, unlike clot-buster drugs, harmless to those with hemorrhagic strokes.
However, one of Mr Hopkin's main arteries to his lungs was 80% blocked by the fragments of the clot which had moved from his leg.
Responding to the research, the Stoke Association's Dr Clare Walton said clot-busters did not work for all patients so new techniques could help many patients.
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