Heparin is an anticoagulant drug that you can administer to yourself via subcutaneous injection into the fatty areas of the body. Most people inject this drug into the abdominal area or upper thighs, although the abdominal area seems to be less painful. If you are taking heparin, then your main goal is to help prevent ...
Blood clots in the legs are medically known as a deep vein thrombosis, or DVT. DVTs are a serious medical issue which affect tens of thousands of people in America each year. It is estimated that up to 50,000 people in America will die each year due to complications from leg blood clots. Typically, these ...
A pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot lodges in one of the arteries located in your lungs. The source of the majority of such blood clots involved in a pulmonary embolism is the legs, but they can also make their way from the arms, pelvis, and heart. In a pulmonary embolism, the clot will ...
In the human, blood normally coagulates within seconds of an injury or forms blood clots (platelets (tiny cells in the blood) congregate around ruptures in blood vessels to form a clot, through a complex process involving as many as twenty different plasma proteins (manufactured in the liver), known as coagulation factors. Plasma proteins C and ...
Interstitial Cystitis is a chronic bladder disorder that can be disabling for some of its patients. Interstitial Cystitis occurs when the lining of the bladder, or bladder wall, becomes irritated and inflamed. Causes of Interstitial Cystitis are still unknown but the illness is linked to other chronic immune dysfunction related illnesses. Some of these include ...
The formation of a clot of blood in a vein, artery or the heart, thrombosis is usually caused by damage to the lining of the blood vessel. Other causes are a stagnation of blood and an increased clotting tendency in the blood. Damage to a blood vessel wall causes the blood platelets to stick together ...
Lovenox is a low-molecular-weight heparin shot. What does this mean? It can prevent blood clots from forming as well as treating existing blood clots. Last year I became very ill and spent three weeks in the hospital. Because of complications, I developed blood clots in my lungs. This resulted in me having to take the ...
