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Congressman-elect Luke Letlow underwent surgery for blood clot before his death
DNYUZ ^ | 01 January 2021

Posted on 01/01/2021 7:24:16 AM PST by zeestephen

Louisiana Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, who died of COVID-19 complications, was operated on for a blood clot before he succumbed to a heart attack, according to a new report. The 41-year-old Republican underwent two procedures to treat a blood clot that he developed while he battled the coronavirus...The second operation appeared to be successful on Tuesday but he died later that day from a heart attack at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport...

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KEYWORDS: bloodclot; chinavirus; heartattack; lukeletlow
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To: zeestephen

So he did not die from Covid.


21 posted on 01/01/2021 7:58:35 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

medicare payments is important to the system, prophylactic treatments early on prevents them from making money


22 posted on 01/01/2021 8:00:29 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: A Navy Vet
Also on the treadmill at least twice a week for 20 minutes at 25 mph.

Damn.

23 posted on 01/01/2021 8:00:43 AM PST by semimojo
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To: ConservativeMind
"It’s not anything like prior abnormal clotting."

So there is no way to dissolve blood clots caused from Covid? I find that difficult to believe with all the blood thinner meds.

24 posted on 01/01/2021 8:04:43 AM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated )
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To: A Navy Vet

If you can run 25 mph you are an Olympic caliber athlete, and if you can do it for 20 minutes at a time, you are beyond any human that ever lived. Im guilty and so are you about proof reading.. or youre full of it.. idk? Anywho covid is a killer of old, sick, the already compru6sed, and a rare few with a genetic defect.


25 posted on 01/01/2021 8:07:00 AM PST by Ikeon (Merry Christmas )
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To: Patriot777

Your understanding of thrombectomy and pharmacology is incorrect. Your statements are patently false.


26 posted on 01/01/2021 8:07:08 AM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: gcparent

I’m lying in a hospital room right now with a blood clot in my lung. I tested positive for Covid on 12/20 and the clot was discovered on 12/30 (my birthday!)


27 posted on 01/01/2021 8:07:15 AM PST by MarDav
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To: MarDav

I hope and pray you recover quickly


28 posted on 01/01/2021 8:08:17 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

“Antithrombolytic” therapy? As a vascular surgeon, I generally employ thrombolytic therapy such as TPA for clots. Antithrombolytic therapy would promote clots. You’re an MD??


29 posted on 01/01/2021 8:13:17 AM PST by armydoc
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To: gcparent

“Overall, 20 percent of the COVID-19 patients were found to have blood clots in the veins, and among patients in the intensive care unit, that statistic increased to 31 percent. Blood clots in the vein, or deep vein thrombosis, can reach the lungs and develop into pulmonary embolism, resulting in higher risk of death.Nov 23, 2020.”

https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+increases+chances+of+blood+clots.&rlz=1CAMWDF_enUS930&oq=covid+increases+chances+of+blood+clots.&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


30 posted on 01/01/2021 8:14:39 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!)
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To: Socon-Econ
We need to see actual data, not just “increases chances”. Otherwise, we’re allowing the scaremongers to continue to over attribute deaths to COVID. It would also help to know the breakdown of clots-with-COVID between Republicans/Democrats.

We've know that about COVID since the beginning that it can cause severe internal swelling and blood clotting (and therefore lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other serious health events). Not like this is something new.

31 posted on 01/01/2021 8:16:34 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: silent majority rising

Clots in the lungs cannot cause a heart attack. That is a false statement.

What likely happened is he was profoundly hypercoaguable. While there is no reference as to where the embolus was I suspect he had a saddle pulmonary embolus.

If you have pulmonary embolus they can be anything from
Insignificant to fatal. It is a letter of what part of the pulmonary vasculature is obstructed. In the event the thrombus is so big that it blocks where the pulmonary artery branches into the right and left pulmonary artery (saddle) then the right ventricle acutely dilates and there is no flow to the left. This is called obstructive shock. Not a heart attack

A heart attack occurs when the coronary arteries are blocked and become ischemic. I busted up pulmonary embolus cannot get in to coronary circulation

Embolic coronary ischemia is unheard of. Instead what happens Ian a thrombus forms where a cholesterol plaque ruptures.

The standard of care is either tPa thrombolysis or catheter directed tPA in the cath lab with thrombectomy. Rarely an open pulmonary artery endarterectomy can be performed but this requires immediate access to bypass circuitry snd cardiovascular surgery

This death is certainly due to CoVID

The death certificate should list cardiac arrest due to obstructive shock secondary to CoVid associated thrombosis.

To say he died or anything but Covid is simply burying a head in the sand. This is what this disease is capable of doing and it is not pretty.


32 posted on 01/01/2021 8:17:33 AM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: Mom MD; A Navy Vet

“Blood thinners don’t reliably prevent clotting in people with COVID-19, and young people are dying of strokes caused by the blockages in the brain.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01403-8


33 posted on 01/01/2021 8:18:02 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: zeestephen

Which came first?


34 posted on 01/01/2021 8:18:15 AM PST by McGruff
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To: Robert DeLong
So he did not die from Covid.

Where are you getting that from?

35 posted on 01/01/2021 8:19:13 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Robert DeLong

Yes he certainly did die of Covid


36 posted on 01/01/2021 8:19:15 AM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: armydoc

sorry. should have put antithrombolytic in quotes but did not take the time


37 posted on 01/01/2021 8:19:33 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: zeestephen
IMHO... this is what is really sad.

Defensive compound Vit. D3, Zinc, Magnesium, less than 10 cents per day and the social media sites and the MSM totally cover it up..... KILLING THOUSANDS MORE PEOPLE!

38 posted on 01/01/2021 8:19:43 AM PST by high info voter
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To: zeestephen

“who died of COVID-19 complications”

Total BS. Car wreck victims and people who commit suicide are even being called COVID victims.


39 posted on 01/01/2021 8:21:14 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Ikeon; A Navy Vet

A sub 2.5 minute mile pace for 20 minutes. Better be on a bicycle. A professional on a bike.


40 posted on 01/01/2021 8:23:11 AM PST by Mr Rogers
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