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Can Repeated Strokes, Rapidly Fluctuating BP And Pain And Mottling In Limbs Indicate Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)?
My friend who live in Austrailia and I had been talking today and she was waiting for ambulance to take her back to the hospital, she had several strokes this past wk her b/p is out rageolus at 200/120/ they cannot seem to keep it in control and she told me she was going in to hops for severe pain in her hard, cold, mottled legs...as a nurse i KNOW this isn't good, I had a patient clot off and then die the next day...no other RNs caught this but me is it DVT and if so has she "clotted off"? Will she die soon? :(
Mon, 20 Jan 2014
hi, lupus and ANTI PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY SYNDROME are the two mostimportant causes of recurrent blood clots and high BP. if diagnosis is properly made, she will have good chances of near normal life. hope this helped
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