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Patient sheds green blood in emergency operation

June 8, 2007 - 10:18AM

Canadian doctors say an emergency operation in Vancouver has turned into a scene from the X-files when the patient started shedding green blood.

But tests show the 42-year-old man isn't a visiting alien, but was suffering from a rare blood condition.

Reporting in The Lancet medical journal doctors say the patient was being operated on for restricted blood flow in his lower legs after falling asleep in a sitting position.

But surgeons were startled by his dark greenish-black blood.

It's apparently been caused by sulphur in the patient's migraine medication being absorbed into his red blood cells.

AAP


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