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.
A: The most common method to remove blood clots in the heart is to administer medication to stop the movement of the clot, according to the Washington University School of Medicine. Patients are monitored weekly by health professionals to track the blood clot.