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in an airplane seat, the blood can pool in your
larger leg veins, and clot. That—coupled with the edge... blood clots on long airplane flight?
Dr. Maharam has some advice:
On flights of three hours or more... 
was that I had several blood clots in my legs. The CAT scan didn't show any clots in my lungs, but the ER doctor felt... out why I had the clots. They asked if I had recently been on long (5-7 hours) airplane flights in which I wasn't moving...
, they are talking of clots of the red stuff, good old blood. Liam Donaldson reckons the number of deaths secondary... to identifying and treating those patients at risk from blood clots in hospitals. There is significant room... 
Leg clots occur without warning with sudden pain and swelling in a leg muscle, usually the calf. This is a particularly dangerous condition because the clot can break lose from the veins in the leg, travel to the lungs and block...
Leg clots occur without warning with sudden pain and swelling in a leg muscle, usually the calf. This is a particularly dangerous condition because the clot can break lose from the veins in the leg, travel to the lungs and block...
Leg clots occur without warning with sudden pain and swelling in a leg muscle, usually the calf. This is a particularly dangerous condition because the clot can break lose from the veins in the leg, travel to the lungs and block...
I recently had a patient present to my office with a complaint of local sharp pain in the back of her leg which had started recently without precipitating factors. The pain was located in her lower leg
found the risk of developing potentially fatal blood clots in the legs roughly triples on a flight that lasts... and will often disappear without symptoms, but in some cases the blood clots come free from blood vessels in the legs... 
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