Patient bleeds dark green blood
Blood is always associated with Red. But can you believe the fact that a man bled green blood during his leg surgery in Canada.
This must have reminded you of Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, the Enterprise's science officer who had green Vulcan blood.
In this case, the unusual color of the 42-year-old's blood was down to the migraine medication he was taking.
According to this science fiction series, Mr. Spock had green blood because of the oxygen carrying agent in Vulcan blood included copper rather than iron (The source that causes the colour red). This was explained through Mr. Spock’s history where he had a human mother and a Vulcan father, thus he inherited his inability to decipher human emotion, as well as his green blood.
Dark green
The patient had been taking large doses of sumatriptan - 200 milligrams a day.
This had caused a rare condition called sulfhaemoglobinaemia, where sulphur is incorporated into the oxygen-carrying compound haemoglobin in red blood cells.
Describing the case in the Lancet, the doctors, led by Dr Alana Flexman from St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, wrote: "The patient recovered uneventfully, and stopped taking sumatriptan after discharge."When seen five weeks after his last dose, he was found to have no sulfhaemoglobin in his blood." The man had needed urgent surgery because he had developed a dangerous condition in his legs after falling asleep in a sitting position.
The surgeons performed urgent fasciotomies - limb-saving procedures which involve making surgical incisions to relieve pressure and swelling caused by the man's condition, known as compartment . In compartment syndrome, the swelling and pressure in a restricted space limits blood flow and causes localised tissue and nerve damage.
Blood is always associated with Red. But can you believe the fact that a man bled green blood during his leg surgery in Canada.
This must have reminded you of Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, the Enterprise's science officer who had green Vulcan blood.
In this case, the unusual color of the 42-year-old's blood was down to the migraine medication he was taking.
According to this science fiction series, Mr. Spock had green blood because of the oxygen carrying agent in Vulcan blood included copper rather than iron (The source that causes the colour red). This was explained through Mr. Spock’s history where he had a human mother and a Vulcan father, thus he inherited his inability to decipher human emotion, as well as his green blood.
Dark green
The patient had been taking large doses of sumatriptan - 200 milligrams a day.
This had caused a rare condition called sulfhaemoglobinaemia, where sulphur is incorporated into the oxygen-carrying compound haemoglobin in red blood cells.
Describing the case in the Lancet, the doctors, led by Dr Alana Flexman from St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, wrote: "The patient recovered uneventfully, and stopped taking sumatriptan after discharge."When seen five weeks after his last dose, he was found to have no sulfhaemoglobin in his blood." The man had needed urgent surgery because he had developed a dangerous condition in his legs after falling asleep in a sitting position.
The surgeons performed urgent fasciotomies - limb-saving procedures which involve making surgical incisions to relieve pressure and swelling caused by the man's condition, known as compartment . In compartment syndrome, the swelling and pressure in a restricted space limits blood flow and causes localised tissue and nerve damage.
It is commonly caused by trauma, internal bleeding or a wound dressing or cast being too . According to the science fantasy television series Star Trek, Mr Spock had green blood because the oxygen-carrying agent in Vulcan blood includes copper, rather than iron, as is the case in humans.
Mr Spock had a human mother, and Vulcan father, from whom he inherited his inability to make sense of human emotion, as well as his green blood.
Mr Spock had a human mother, and Vulcan father, from whom he inherited his inability to make sense of human emotion, as well as his green blood.
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