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Number of years he expected the journey to take, before being delayed by two broken legs, a bout of depression and a crocodile attack...
That's a possibility that doctors have been wrestling with for several years, as studies have shown a disturbing spike in heart attacks--as much as 25%--and even deaths in patients who have received blood, usually within a month after the transfusion. The problem may occur to some degree in almost every group of critically ill patients, from trauma cases in the E.R. to anemics in the icu. Since doctors know how to safeguard the blood supply from infectious diseases and keep allergic reactions from transfusions to a minimum, the heart-attack problem doesn't seem to be related...
...consequences of this seem clear from the numbers. A study of 24,000 people with acute coronary symptoms showed that those who received a blood transfusion had a 25% chance of having a heart attack and an 8% chance of dying within 30 days; similar patients who did not get a transfusion had an 8% chance of a cardiac event and a 3% chance of death. Stamler believes that without NO, red blood cells are not dilating tiny vessels properly and instead pile up in the narrow passageways, blocking flow and damaging the very heart tissue the blood was transfused...
Another answer may be to fix the blood that's on the shelves. Working with dogs, Stamler has shown that the heart-attack rate drops when depleted blood is replenished with liquid NO. Human premature babies born with underdeveloped lungs are already being exposed to gaseous NO to help their tissues get the oxygen they need. For now, the American Red Cross, which oversees the 14 million units of stored blood, is awaiting more studies before changing its processing and storage practices...
Believe it or not, Brown has the top-ranked offense and passing attack in the Ivies. Michael Dougherty ranks No. 1 in I-AA in passing yards per game, and has gone over 400 in back-to-back games...