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Offline Nemesis

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Patient bleeds dark green blood
« on: June 08, 2007, 08:29:33 pm »
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A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports.


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Dark green

The patient had been taking large doses of sumatriptan - 200 milligrams a day.

This had caused a rare condition called sulfhaemoglobinaemia, where sulphur is incorporated into the oxygen-carrying compound haemoglobin in red blood cells.
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Re: Patient bleeds dark green blood
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2007, 07:19:03 am »
At least that is better than dark green doo-doo. That's what happens when you have too much iron in your system.  ;D
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Re: Patient bleeds dark green blood
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2007, 04:05:29 pm »

coverup.  They found a Vulcan!   :P
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Re: Patient bleeds dark green blood
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2007, 09:05:00 pm »
Quote from: Commander Maxillius on June 13, 2007, 04:05:29 pm

coverup.  They found a Vulcan!   :P

Or a Romulan spy.
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