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Doctors discover blood thinner that can safely dissolve Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine-linked clots - Daily Mail
May 06, 2021 1 min, 25 secs

Doctors say they may have discovered a cure for the type of blood clots linked to Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine that may have saved a Colorado woman's life.

Twelve days after being given the vaccine, she went to the emergency room at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, where scans showed a blood clot in her brain and in her lungs.  .

At the time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had advised that patients experienced clots after getting the J&J shot not be given a popular blood thinning medication called heparin. .

Not only did it help break up Wolfe's blood clots but she was able to leave the hospital and go home just six days later. .

Finally, on April 13, Wolfe decided to visit the emergency room at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz. .

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended a temporary pause of J&J after six women developed rare, but serious, blood clots out of 7.2 million vaccinations.

All developed cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) - a rare type of blood clot that blocks the brain's sinus channels of draining blood - along with low blood platelet counts, known as thrombocytopenia. 

'We did a CT scan that showed a clot in the brain and a clot in the lungs,' Dr Todd Clark, assistant medical director at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, told ABC 7 Denver

It came after European researchers found that the coronavirus vaccine from AztraZeneca-the University of Oxford, also linked to blood clots, causes the body to attack its own blood platelets, triggering deadly clots in the brain.  

The medication worked to break up the blood clot (left side) Wolfe was discharged from the hospital six days later

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