Vice President Cheney treated for blood clot in his leg after experiencing discomfort in calf.

[sandrakae]

He needs to be treated at Walter Reed. Oh that's right Walter Reed is only for brave men and women that served, not cowards that received 5 deferments. Cowards with 5 deferments get treated in places in upscale hospitals with great conditions.

[sakabatou]

1. He needs to refresh his blood supply

Sucking huamns, soldiers and the US dry is not enough.

[AndyA]

5. Guess we'd all better hang garlic at the window tonight,

or whatever it is you do to ward off Vampires. Cheney'll be out looking for new blood right away.

[buff2]

2. Gee.....I wish him well

:sarcasm:

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Walter Reed? Which ward???? n/t

[Eurobabe]

4. oh boy, that thing better not move around!!

or Unka Dick'll kick the bucket!

[sandrakae]

16. Yea like maybe to his left arm.

[blitzburgh55]

6. In his last throes

??

[petepillow]

7. a new, healthy, conveniently electable VP to be named soon by Karl Rove

:sarcasm:

[razorman]

8. I, for one, will wish him well.

Otherwise, I would have absolutely no room to be outraged when some RW'er expresses their desire for the demise of some liberal icon, such as Helen Thomas, Ted Kennedy, et al. We should be handling our political differences in a more civilised manner.

[sandrakae]

17. Nobody in here gave im the clot.

[PresidentObama]

9. I want to say something evil really bad right now

:evilgrin: I'll behave though.

[Algorem]

10. so he gets uncomfortable fucking a calf so Secret Service called doctor?

they're off their game.they usually cover this kind of shit up right away.

[Contrary1]

11. Oooh!!!

Time to move the needle in my Big Dick Voodoo Doll to another location! :evilgrin:

[AtomicKitten]

12. possible DVT

deep venous thrombosis - which can throw a clot to the brain or heart;
this happens with inactivity and just being evil

on edit:

AP: Doctors diagnose blood clot in Cheney's lower left leg

Doctors have diagnosed a blood clot in Vice President Dick Cheney's lower left leg, AP reports.

"Vice President Dick Cheney made a visit to the hospital today after experiencing what his office called some 'discomfort' following his recent trip overseas," the Associated Press reports. "A statement from cheney's office said an ultrasound revealed a deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or 'blood clot' in his left lower leg and added his doctors will treat him with blood thinning medication for several months."

The sixty-six year old vice president "experienced mild calf discomfort," according to the AP, "and in light of his recent prolonged air travel, he visited his doctor's office at the George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates this afternoon."

MSNBC reports that it was "potentially serious," but that the doctors found it early enough, and Cheney has already gone back to work today. The cable news network also reported that President Bush was informed of Cheney's condition before he visited the medical center.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17470491/

[pnwmom]

14. There's something that doesn't make sense about this.

They don't just send you home with a prescription for coumadin, because coumadin takes some time to work -- days. In the meantime, the clot could get bigger or "throw." So the first thing they do is give the patient heparin, but that's usually done IV.

But probably Cheney was already taking coumadin -- so maybe they just increased his dose? Still, I'm surprised they'd just send him back to work. We're not getting the whole story here. Not that we ever do . . .

[AtomicKitten]

15. They will give him a loading dose of the anticoagulant

and do labs until he reaches therapeutic levels ...

There are also surgical options such as filters inserted in the offending vessel, and I can only assume that wasn't done as a precautionary measure because it wasn't necessary.

On edit: Cheney has an ICD (implantable cardioverter/defibrillator) which is supposed to guard against arrhythmia.

[caligirl]

20. nice helpful info. Thanks for sharing.

[pdxmike]

21. not to be too picky

but venous thrombosis is not caused by arrythmias or faulty heart valves. You're thinking of arterial emboli that can cause strokes. A dvt is on the other side of the vascular fence and is typically caused by venous stasis.
patients with your typical dvt are rarely admitted. They are usually started on low molecular weight heparin to start and managed on an outpatient basis.

[AtomicKitten]

22. while inactivity (prolonged flights, etc.) is a leading cause of DVT ...

I work in the medical field. I assure you a suspected DVT is treated with great care and caution, diagnosed on Doppler ultrasound and almost always admission for a loading dose of anticoagulant therapy. At least in the hospitals I work for; maybe not yours.

[pdxmike]

25. Sorry, hate to disagree...

and with all due respect to a fellow DU'er, but as a doc who's involved in this stuff (I do lots of doppler studies for this), as far as I know, the current standard of care is to start patients on Lovenox (low molecular weight heparin). They are then taught to self inject the stuff subQ, and followed by an anti-coag clinic.

[AtomicKitten]

26. no problem

Disagreeing is what we are here for. I do medical transcription for acute care institutions that almost always hospitalize patients as a precautionary measure.

[pnwmom]

24. Are they usually sent back to work?

[sandrakae]

18. Maybe the Doctor has a child in Iraq.

[pdxmike]

13. DVT(deep venous thrombosis)? That's not his real problem...

The artery that perfused his soul thrombosed years ago.

[Mz Pip]

19. He will be fine

Cheney has the best medical care money can buy and his own personal team of doctors.

Unlike 40 million Americans.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Algorem]

23. He shore is a Dick.

He probably eats blood clots for breakfast."Kin ya cut it outta me,doc,so I kin have fer brekfast?!Huh?!Kin ya?!(snort!fart!)."