The nickname Boilermakers goes back to 1891 when the Purdue football team defeated nearby rival Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana 44â0.
Doctors can use computed tomography (to-MOG-rah-fee) scans, or CT scans, to look for blood clots in the lungs and legs. For this test, dye is injected into a vein in your arm. The dye makes the blood vessels in your lungs and legs show up on x-ray images. You'll lie on a table, and an x-ray tube will rotate around you.
1 Blood clots can cause heart attack or stroke; or pain, swelling, redness and tenderness in the area of the clot. 2  The diagnosis is suggested by the history and physical examination and often confirmed with an imaging test. 3  Treatment may require surgery, anti-coagulation medications, or a combination of the two.