Blood & Blood Vessel (Vascular) Disorders

The basic types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, capillaries and lymphatics. Their main goal is to keep blood flowing to all of your vital organs. Here, you can discuss topics related to blood disorders (anemia, blood cholesterol, hemochromatosis, hemophilia, polycythemia vera, sepsis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, thrombosis) and blood vessel disorders (arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, aneurysm, vasculitis, venous thrombosis, varicose veins, lymphedema).

Potassium is running high.

Hi, The Dr's office called and said that my blood reports came back and that my potassium was running high at 5.3. If mine is that waht is the number that would be higher than that if I would have to go to the hospital. Dorothy

by Dorothy Youngski over a year ago

She had unrelieved aneurism

I am investigating circumstances surrounding the 2006 sudden and unexpected death of a 63 year old woman at my workplace. She was a healthy woman, with no history of any medical conditions. She came to work with an unrelieved headache, which eventually was reported to her employer as a severe...

by VancouverLifeguard138775 over a year ago

High level of B12

What would cause a high level of B12? My level was 1142.

by Guest over a year ago

Iron defficiency

My wife's serum Iron and Ferritin levels are 30 and 8 respectively. She has a normal RBC, Hgb, and Hct levels. All of her RBC indeces (MCV, MCH, and MCHC) are in the normal range. She was previousely diagnosed with malabsorption syndrome due to Ibuprophin overuse. Thrre years ago, she was anemic...

by minasz@aol.com over a year ago

Blood analsis

HI, I am 43 ears old man. and my doctor order me to make blood analysis as i complained on lege problem when i get my report from blood analysis i saw that my HCT, RBC and RDW are high i wouid like to know what it means . Thank you for an suggestion

by Abdulkadir over a year ago

Simcor Combination Represents Great Success In Treating Multiple Cholesterol Disorders

Researchers discovered that a new pill shows promising results in improving levels of cholesterol, triglycerides and other lipids that can be related to risk of heart disease. During the study patients were treated with Simcor combination and they felt improvement in reduction of non HDL , HDL and...

by Heather_2 over a year ago

Heprin Induced Thrombosis Death

My mother died from Heprin Induced Thrombosis. This happended 4 years ago. I still know very little about her death and how this medication caused her death. It is quite difficult to understand the loss of my mother without understanding how a blood thinner can clot blood. She began clotting...

by Denitab over a year ago

strong/long PVC's causing imbalance

Hello to all, I've had PVC's for now approximately 5 years and all med evaluations have been normal. Just as I begin to think I'm started to cope with these things something new seems to appear. First it was biegeminey heart rate, next it was one episode of SVT, then pain with palpatations, and now...

by Cuzz over a year ago

Good BP - High Pulse

I've been bothered by a condition that affects me when I exert myself, eg, swift ascent of a flight of stairs, strenuous physical activity. I experience light headedness, blurred vision, dizzyness. It goes away if I stop all motion for a couple of minutes. I took my BP and Pulse during one of...

by wistful over a year ago

False Aneurysm / Liquefied Haematoma

Well about 3 weeks ago I got hit in the head with a pole in two places (long story). I went to the doctor as there are 2 lumps and 1 big and 1 small. Went for an ultra sound and this is what it said: Scans taken in the region of interest on the left side of the scalp show a lesion measuring 1.2 x...

by synthesiss95582 over a year ago