Inferior vena cava filters are tiny devices placed inside a vein to prevent ... They’ll inject a dye in your vein that shows up on either X-ray or ultrasound images to guide the placement ...

One venous puncture, rather than two, is a safe and effective approach to intravascular ultrasound-guided inferior vena cava filter placement in critically-ill patients, a new study shows.

In the 1980s cardiologists began using the size of the inferior vena cava (IVC) as seen on ultrasound (US) as a surrogate for the right sided filling pressures of the heart.

Doppler ultrasonography of the patient’s right lower extremity revealed a near-occlusive thrombus in the right common femoral vein and external iliac vein, and within the visible segment of the right ...

A new study shows that one venous puncture, rather than two, is a safe and effective approach to intravascular ultrasound-guided inferior vena cava filter placement in critically-ill patients.

With a block in the vena cava obstructing circulation, a pulmonary embolism can be potentially fatal. Mehdipoor, Bikdeli and their colleagues analyzed over 3,600 medical records, identified studies of ...

A 45-year-old woman presents to the emergency department complaining of nausea and extreme abdominal pain on her right side. She notes that symptoms came on suddenly 2 days before.

Inferior Vena Cava Percentage Collapse During Respiration Is Affected by the Sampling Location: An Ultrasound Study in Healthy Volunteers. Wallace DJ et al. Academic Emergency Medicine 2010; 17:96 ...