Also, the red-clot dissolvers actually induce white clots.
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"We've never had a drug that can go after the white clot, until now, " said the study's lead investigator Dr . Eric Topol, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
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These processes may overlap : the spectrum is from a predominantly platelet plug, or " white clot " to a predominantly fibrin clot, or " red clot " or the more typical mixture.
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This phenomenon was discovered by Jonathan Towne, a vascular surgeon in Milwaukee, who was also the first to report the " white clot syndrome " ( now called heparin induced thrombocytopenia [ HIT ] ).