Posted on 1/17/2020
Serena Auñón-Chancellor, clinical associate professor of medicine at Louisiana State University Health, New Orleans School of Medicine’s branch campus, in Baton Rouge, USA, is the lead author of a paper which describes a previously unrecognised risk of spaceflight discovered during a study of astronauts involved in long-duration missions.
According to a statement, the paper details a case of stagnant blood flow, resulting in a clot in the internal jugular vein of an astronaut stationed on the International Space Station, and was published in the January 2020 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
“These new findings demonstrate that the human body still surprises us in space,” notes Auñón-Chance...