Measuring and Imaging the Arterial Platelet Thrombus in Heart Attack and Stroke - Saving Lives by Rapid Intervention with Drugs, Devices and Genetics
I was thinking about writing a medical story book with a lot of visual arts on the most challenging human diseases, the heart- or brain-attack and the presumed vascular culprit: the platelet thrombus from its initiation, rapid maturation, migration, lodging in the critical, narrowing arteries of heart or brain, choking these hard-working organs to death by blocking the blood supply of vital oxygen and other nutrients. When they are healthy, the proteins, the cells of blood and the composite structure..