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.
Step 1. Recognize the symptoms of a blood clot, and report them to your doctor. The affected body part (usually the leg) may be swollen, red in color and warm to the touch. Tenderness or an aching pain may also be a symptom of a blood clot. Step 2. Have a blood test done to check D dimer levels.