The blood clot that Hillary Clinton suffered is inside her skull but did not result in a stroke or neurological damage, her physicians said.
The condition can cause permanent brain damage, coma or death if not detected and treated in time. In Clintons' case, however, it appears to have caused few if any symptoms.
Clinton, who is 66, reportedly became severely dehydrated with an intestinal infection. She fainted, fell and hit her head, suffering a concussion. Whether those events are related to the blood clot is unknown, with experts offering divergent opinions.
Cerebral venous thrombosis — the general term for Clintons' condition — is rare. It occurs in about four out of every million adults per year.
Head trauma can cause blood in a venous sinus to clot, but it almost always has to be severe enough to cause a skull fracture, said Aaron S. Dumont, director of cerebrovascular surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. “It’s probably a coincidence,” he said of Clintons' fainting spell and the clot.
Whether Clinton got an MRI scan after her fall and what it found hasn’t been revealed.
As a result of her fall and concussion, Clinton did not testify before Congress on Dec. 20 about the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Ben*ghazi.
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-31/national/36103900_1_clot-thrombosis-venous
In 1978 and 1979, lawyer and First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Clinton engaged in a series of trades of cattle futures contracts. Her initial $1,000 investment had generated nearly $100,000 when she stopped trading after ten months. In 1994, after Clinton had become First Lady, the trading became the subject of considerable controversy regarding the likelihood of such a spectacular rate of return.
The editor of the Journal of Futures Markets said, "This is like buying ice skates one day and entering the Olympics a day later."
USA Today concluded after a four-week study that "Clinton had some special treatment while winning a small fortune in commodities."
Hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer concluded her explanations for her results were highly implausible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_cattle_futures_controversy
Most of the commodity orders by which Hillary turned $1,000 into nearly $100,000 in the 1970s were placed by James B. Blair, a friend and lawyer for the Tyson Foods Company, whose role Clinton Administration officials had previously described as only an adviser.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/11/us/friend-did-futures-trades-for-hillary-clinton.html
