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2005-09-08 Israel-Palestine

Arafat's personal physician sez he had AIDS (but he died of astroke, really)

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-09-08 11:46|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A Google search turned up seval discussions. This one - http://rnbob.tripod.com/dic.htm - offered the following tidbits:

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) is always a secondary disease and is a consequence of many other primary problems.

Trauma patients are at increased risk for DIC. Widespread areas of tissue damage (particularly the brain), sepsis and multiple organ failure.

Sepsis may occur in about 40% of trauma patients and is an important primary cause of DIC in all patients.

Fibrin deposition in DIC may lead to further organ dysfunction. DIC is a major cause of acute renal failure and it also contributes to multiple system organ failure. The converse is also true with damaged organs contributing to DIC.

Posted by Bobby 2005-09-08 14:55|| 2005-09-08 14:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Or, from
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000573.htm comes these tidbits:

DIC is when your body's blood clotting mechanisms are activated throughout the body instead of being localized to an area of injury. Small blood clots form throughout the body, and eventually the blood clotting factors are used up and not available to form clots at sites of real tissue injury. Clot dissolving mechanisms are also increased.

This disorder has variable effects, and can result in either clotting symptoms or, more often, bleeding. Bleeding can be severe. DIC may be stimulated by many factors. These include infection in the blood by bacteria or fungus, severe tissue injury (as in burns and head injury), cancer, reactions to blood transfusions, and obstetrical complications (such as retained placenta after delivery).

Risk factors are recent sepsis, recent injury or trauma, recent surgery or anesthesia, complications of labor and delivery, leukemia or disseminated cancer, recent blood transfusion reaction, and severe liver disease.

Posted by Bobby 2005-09-08 14:57|| 2005-09-08 14:57|| Front Page Top

#3 AIDS would explain the tremors and dementia that surfaced towards the end.

Posted by Rory B. Bellows 2005-09-08 15:18|| 2005-09-08 15:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Sepsis would suggest my prayers were answered.

Posted by Fred">Fred 2005-09-08 18:33|| 2005-09-08 18:33|| Front Page Top

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