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| Celebrities Who've Had Blood Clots |
Life-threatening blood clots can happen to anyone, but certain things make them more likely. Here's what happened with these notable names. 
Celebrities Who’ve Had Blood Clots
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Serena Williams
The tennis great
dominates the court. But her most fearsome foe may be blood clots. Williams was
treated for one in her lungs, called a pulmonary embolism (PE), shortly after
an emergency C-section in 2017. She was hospitalized with a previous PE in
2011. Doctors say a pair of foot surgeries and a long flight could have caused
a clot called a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in her leg, which moved up to her
lungs and blocked blood flow.
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Hillary Clinton
In 2012, the then-U.S.
secretary of state had a blood clot behind her right ear. Doctors found it
during a routine brain scan while treating her for a concussion. The clot was
in a vein between Clinton’s brain and skull. Dehydration may have played a role.
Doctors put her on blood thinners, and she recovered fully. In 2014, Clinton
told ABC News she had been diagnosed with a DVT before and probably would need
blood thinners for life
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David Bloom
The NBC newsman died in
2003 at age 39 while covering the war in Iraq. A DVT traveled to his lungs and
caused a pulmonary embolism that killed him. The clot could have been triggered
by spending days and nights cramped inside of military tanks. Bloom also had a
condition he was born with but didn’t know about: factor V Leiden. That’s a
blood clotting disorder that ups your chances of DVT.
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Garry Shandling
The comic and star of
TV’s The Larry Sanders Show died of a pulmonary embolism in
2016. Shandling complained he felt short of breath and had pain in his leg. He
called 911 the next day but collapsed while on the line. He was 66.
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Chris Bosh
Life-threatening blood
clots in a lung forced the Miami Heat forward to cut his 2015 season short.
Then a DVT did the same the next year. Clots are usually treated with
blood-thinning drugs. That can make sports like basketball dangerous because
injuries can cause bleeding problems. In 2017, the NBA ruled Bosh’s blood clots
were career-ending, and the superstar left the league at age 33.
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John McCain
The U.S. senator and
former presidential nominee had surgery to remove a blood clot over his left
eye in July 2017. Days later, the Arizona Republican’s office revealed that the
clot was linked to the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma.
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Nick Cannon
The entertainer, who was
married to Mariah Carey at the time, quit his radio show in 2012 after doctors
found blood clots in his lungs and an enlarged heart. Cannon had been
hospitalized a month earlier for kidney failure. He said he had lupus, an
autoimmune disorder that affects African-Americans and Asian-Americans more
often than whites. People with lupus may make protein antibodies that make
blood more likely to clot.
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Regis Philbin
The co-host of the Live! With Regis and Kelly talk show had surgery in 2010 to take a blood clot
out of his calf. Philbin, then 78, said the clot made it hard for him to walk.
He had hip replacement surgery in 2009 and triple bypass surgery in 2007. Both
could have raised his chances of a DVT.
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Heavy D
The hip-hop musician
collapsed outside of his home in 2011 and died at a Los Angeles hospital.
Coroners said the 44-year-old rapper was killed by a DVT that probably started
in his leg during a flight home from London. The clot traveled to his lungs and
choked his blood flow. Being obese can make you several times more likely to
get both DVT and PE. Heavy D, whose real name was Dwight Myers, weighed 344
pounds.
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Brian Vickers
Blood clots have
repeatedly sidelined his NASCAR career. Vickers couldn’t finish the 2010 season
after a close call with a PE. An ankle injury led to a blood clot in his leg in
2013. He pulled out of a race in 2015 because of clots. Drivers can’t compete
while on blood thinners because they might bleed out after an accident. Some
people who’ve had blood clots get them again.
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Dennis Farina
This former Chicago cop
played a detective on TV’s Law and Order.
He died suddenly of a PE in 2013 at age 69. Farina’s cardiologist confirmed
that when he died, the actor was being treated for a lung cancer that had
returned.
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Jerome Kersey
The popular retired
Portland Trail Blazers player died at 52 after a blood clot broke loose from
his left calf and plugged up a blood vessel in his lungs. Leg clots can form
when people don’t move much. Kersey had had knee surgery just days earlier.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
The eight-times-married
Hungarian-born actress had her hips replaced in 2010. She later had surgery to
remove clots from her upper body. Then she was hospitalized for large clots in
her legs. Gabor was injured in a 2002 car accident and had a stroke in 2005.
The surgeries and being wheelchair-bound may have led to the blood clots.
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Dick Cheney
The former vice
president flew for 65 hours in 9 days during a visit to Asia and the Middle
East in 2007. After the trip, he complained of mild pain in his leg. An
ultrasound found a DVT in Cheney’s lower left leg. He was treated with blood
thinners and recovered.
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NeNe Leakes
The Real
Housewives of Atlanta star in 2013 noticed pain on the upper right
part of her body. She also felt short of breath and went to a hospital. The
symptoms turned out to have come from blood clots that had lodged in her lungs.
Doctors said Leakes’s frequent cross-country flights probably were a reason
behind her health scare.
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