Blood clots aggravate brain injuries
04/13/2016![Patients with traumatic brain injury frequently have clotted blood vessels (arrow) that can impair supply of the brain and aggravate brain damage. In the brain tissue of healthy persons, the vessels are usually free of such deposits (asterisk).](/fileadmin/_processed_/4/f/csm_0413schaedel-hirn-w_f41f1a22a1.jpg)
When the brain is injured in an accident, the damage continues to spread in the following days. Blood clots are obviously to blame for this as a research team of the University of Würzburg has found.
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