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.
When does easy bruising indicate a more serious problem? Easy bruising sometimes indicates a serious underlying condition, such as a blood-clotting problem or a blood disease. To find the cause of your bruising, your doctor might check your blood platelet levels or do tests that measure the time it takes your blood to clot.