WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suffered a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull behind her right ear but is expected to make a full recovery, her doctors said on Monday in a statement released by the State Department.
Clinton did not suffer a stroke or neurological damage as a result of the clot, the doctors said, adding that “she is in good spirits, engaging with her doctors, her family and her staff.”
Clinton, who has not been seen in public since Dec. 7, was revealed on Sunday evening to be in a New York hospital under treatment for a blood clot apparently linked to a concussion she suffered in mid-December.
“In the course of a routine follow-up MRI on Sunday, the scan revealed that a right transverse sinus venous thrombosis had formed. This is a clot in the vein that is situated in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear,” Clinton’s doctors, Drs. Lisa Bardack and Gigi El-Bayoumi said in the statement.
“To help dissolve this clot, her medical team began treating the Secretary with blood thinners. She will be released once the medication dose has been established,” the doctors said. “In all other aspects of her recovery, the Secretary is making excellent progress and we are confident she will make a full recovery.”
Clinton’s health problems began with what the State Department said was a stomach virus contracted during a trip to Europe.
Before that time, she had kept up a punishing travel schedule, logging thousands of flying miles and breaking travel records for a U.S. secretary of state.
But the health setbacks have forced her to cancel an overseas trip, as well as planned testimony to Congress on Dec. 20 in connection with a report on the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
This whole story is odd and very troubling.
Why is that?
Right 65 year old people who are constantly flying never get sick do they Dr. Rocky?
She hit her head and had a blood clot. Happens to a lot of people. How is it odd and troubling?
I’m in my early 50’s and in pretty decent shape. I work a physical job and have minor injuries from time to time. One injury resulted in a blood clot that caused a heart attack (which I didn’t even know I had at the time). Just goes to show it can happen.
Yes u r right . What about the lady that was sking fell on the ice hit her head an a few hours later she died from a blood clot
national enquirer is calling it a brain tumor
Yet no one saw it happen, which prevented her from testifying.. Doctors can lie along with politicans.
Something always seems to happen to her when the crap is about to hit the fan?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight !
If I was Mz. Clinton, I would have private armed guards protecting me.
Not the ones from the guvment.
I don’t know about that but she will never testify…I have read on other sites that she has had a drinking problem since the 2008 loss to Obuma and has been in detox since her fall..Blood clots are common in older folks giving up the booze…That will be the next card to fall to gain sympathy for her…The press will gladly go along…Google Hillary boozing it up for photos and stories…
Some photos here..
http://www.asmainegoes.com/content/hillary-clinton-first-fall-concussion-now-blood-clots-what-next-amnesia
Blood clots..
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh21-1/42.pdf
“In many patients with thrombocytopenia, rebounding platelet numbers even exceed normal values. This rebound thrombocytosis after cessation of alcohol consumption also occurs in the majority of patients whose platelet counts are normal at the time of hospitalization.”
Why the hate from some of you folks? How would you feel if someone said the same thing about your living mother?
Best wishes to Mrs. Clinton on a speedy recovery. Scary stuff.
But she is alive and Ambassador Stevens and 3 other Americans are not. No sympathy here.
Wishing Mrs. Clinton a speedy recovery.
Getting ready for the Conspiracy Theorists before I even scroll down through the comment section … you are predictably there, unfortunately!