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Subscribe to RSSThe Secretary of State has been undergoing treatment for a blood clot just below her ear that was reportedly caused by the concussion she suffered in mid-December. She is expected to make a complete recovery. NBC News chief science correspondent Robert Bazell reports.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remained hospitalized Tuesday for a blood clot in her head, but her doctors say she has no brain damage and is expected to recover completely.
Clinton, who fainted and suffered a concussion earlier this month, is being treated with blood thinners to help shrink the clot, which is in one of the veins between the brain and her skull.
"In the course of a routine follow-up MRI on Sunday, the scan revealed that a right transverse sinus venous thrombosis had formed,” Dr. Lisa Bardack of Mt. Kisco Medical Group in New York and Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi of George Washington University said in a joint statement.
“This is a clot in the vein that is situated in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear. It did not result in a stroke, or neurological damage. To help dissolve this clot, her medical team began treating the secretary with blood thinners. She will be released once the medication dose has been established.”
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was supposed to return to work later this week until doctors discovered a blood clot had formed in a vein between her brain and skull. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
The statement helps answer questions about Clinton’s condition, outside experts said. “This is different than a lot of assumptions that people made, which is that it was a deep vein thrombosis in her leg,” said Dr. Alex Valadka, a spokesman for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and a practicing neurologist in Austin, Texas.
The statement from Clinton’s doctors suggested she would recover fully.
“In all other aspects of her recovery, the Secretary is making excellent progress and we are confident she will make a full recovery. She is in good spirits, engaging with her doctors, her family, and her staff,” they said.
Valadka said such a clot can be very dangerous.
“This could potentially be very serious because so much blood goes through your brain,” Valadka told NBC news. “If you block one of the major draining pathways, you can get a stroke.”
Valadka said standard treatment would be to infuse a bloodthinner such as heparin right away, and to then put a patient onto blood thinner pills for a fews weeks or months.
“The interesting question is how is this related to her concussion, if at all?” Valadka asked.
Clinton, 65, is known for hitting the road hard and she’s logged close to a million miles in travel, having visited 112 countries while in office. She had planned to step down in 2013 and was widely considered a potential front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president, if she chose to run again in 2016.
The extensive travel and dehydration could predispose someone to such a blood clot, Valadka said.
“These dural venous sinus thromboses, they can happen spontaneously on their own without any trauma, without any blow to the head,” Valadka said. “Is it just a coincidence?”
But a blow to the back of the head could have damaged the vein, causing the clot, he added.
Dr. Jack Ansell of the New York University School of Medicine agreed.
“This condition is certainly not common but it’s not rare, either, and certain patients are prone to it,” Ansell said. “They include those who have head trauma, as she did, and people who have other underlying tendencies to have blood clots. It’s a serious problem but it is certainly one that is eminently treatable. I would expect her get better.”
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
Hillary Clinton's life has taken her from first lady to senator to secretary of state.
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Wow!!!! Another Medical Miracle !!! Amazing Recovery-Just as they got a vote through on the Fiscal Cliff-Hilly's Physical Cliff Came To A Resolution !!! Can't Get Any Better Than This!!! You Go Girl !!!
We know she is getting the very best of health care which the average Tax Payer can't afford so hopefully she will have a full recovery then RETIRE and go away taking Bill with her. Guess visiting 122 countries being given the royal treatment has wore her out so time for her to ease on into retirement as Bill and her have done enough for their country......their motto is "Don't ask, don't tell"......
High stress life...Get well soon !
Hillary had clots before in her legs she is to fat . What she needs to do is get het fat legs and big butt up to the congress and start telling the truth about Benghazi we don't care about her clots we do care and want to know ,who gave the order to stand down and let four men die , her or Obama or both .
i think she should get a second opinion.
This is wonderful news! Reminds me of Revelation 13:3.
Soon we can expect Hillary to tell the truth about Benghazi. The whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you Hillary! She would not want to commit perjury like her husband Bill did about his escapades!
If she does not recover soon, I predict her to make a miraculous recovery in 2015 in time for her to start her presidential campaign! Of course she will be absent of any recollection of Benghazi by then.
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Benghazi Who?
It's a good thing she has obamacare.
Unfortunately it sounds like she has had a Stroke. Of course it needs to be covered up or she can't run in 2016. She missed the window of opportunity and we ended up with Barry and the Idiot. A Clinton would have been better.
So let the details of the attack fade. She probably won't have any recollection of the details now. Just let her fade away and try to recover.
GBA
So I bet she will have amnesia from all this head trama. I would laugh histerically if she lost the ability to lie. we could get the scoop on the Savings and Loans scandals, why did the witnesses mysteriously die, actually how many children have been killed by Obamas drone strikes, who directed all the recent shooting rampages in order to do away witht he second amendment, where is the federal government hiding all the money, how many donors from out of the country did it take to get Obama elected, ect. ect. ect.
How many guns has Obama sold to the mexican drug lords, how much tax payer money is given to minoritys in order to secure votes(democrat of course), how ultra conservative George Soros really is and how he plays liberal in order to manipulate minorities, why has fema secured so many make-shift coffins and bullets, when will the genocide of all no democrats commence, ect. ect. ect... You get the Government you deserve people!Nothing is proof enough for the professional idiot.
And this has what to do with this story? Stick to the subject or don't post!
Hillary has a very stressful job and life, and things only seem to get worse for her. Coming clean on Benghazi might take a load off of her. I think she wants to talk and just either isn't being allowed too or the details are just to bad to live with. Nothing can change what happened and sometimes I think she is just another casualty.
Hopefully this will help her reflect on her life and her mortality and the consequences of her actions for the past 30 years... it's effects on the American people and the blood that is on her hands. God can still forgive her but only if she faces the truth about herself and asks for it. I think He is trying to get through to her through this blood clot - people die because of blook clots every day. The Lord loves you Hilary, and wants you to give yourself to Him. It's not too late to change your life.
Do you think she still hates Doctors since she tried to subjugate them during HillaryCare? And old Bill needed them to keep him going too!
well i guess that is the punishment we get??? we were all hoping her problem would be terminal, and like her boss, hanoi jane, and a few others, we would be better off without them...
Is this recovery going to include FULL memory, or is this going to be a side affect? What's really sad here is that doctors can be bought off so easy. Beware docs, you'll be on their payroll for a while. That's something to be proud of.
Beware...it's a scientific fact that women resent more attractive women...so her image being created by the media photos is by design. An ugly Hillary is pathetic and pathetic wins in these contemporary times. When you denigrate her you feed her base of gays/lesbos/wellfare queens (and kings)/public sector slugs and union thugs/illegal immigrants/minorities...pretty much everyone that the media is rallying against evil white men. As we've seen firsthand...it's a shoein for victory...an ugly woman will be the perfect candidate...as we've wintnessed for the last 12 years morals/ethics/standards/virtues such as honesty are NOT prereqs...in fact honesty is a liability that can never win...dishonest and ugly Hoooray!!!
These ONE NOTE, one time posters with their irrational, mind-numbing remarks are displaying their immature ignorance.
GO TO BENGHAZI and figure out an answer that satisfies you.
If you can't comprehend the PUBLISHED INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ... time for you to GO NOW
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