Inexplicable medical mistakes like this are called “never events,” and they aren’t quite as rare as their name suggests.

carrying deoxygenated blood to the heart from the upper body parts (superior vena cava) and lower body parts (inferior vena cava). Mitral stenosis occurs when the mitral valve's opening narrows ...

A blood clot is a lump of blood that can form in various body parts, including the legs, arms, lungs or heart. These clots ...

such as measurement of the inferior vena cava (IVC) distensibility and collapsibility index. IVC assessment is a dynamic parameter in which a transpulmonary pressure change is transmitted to the right ...

Brain Toxin Elimination: This position enhances blood circulation by reducing pressure on the inferior vena cava, a large ...

It affects the veins which return blood from the liver back to the inferior vena cava, the main venous return to the heart; and can occur with or without a causative factor. Doppler ultrasonography is ...

Setting: Using a combination of magnetic resonance (MR) phase contrast techniques and an MR compatible bicycle ergometer, blood flow was measured in the superior vena cava, the tunnel from the ...

Additionally, both the rate of of heart failure hospitalisations, and the mean diuretic doses significantly reduced. This was accompanied by positive right ventricular remodeling and sustained ...

Renal Blood Clots Also known as renal vein thrombosis (RVT), this is a blockage of the renal vein, which carries blood away from the kidney and ureter blood to the inferior vena cava (a large vein ...

HV then gathers blood from the liver parenchyma and finally drains into the inferior vena cava. In cases of right heart dysfunction, liver congestion ensues due to impaired hepatic venous return, ...

ALTHOUGH ligation of the inferior vena cava for prevention of pulmonary emboli is being performed increasingly often a difference of opinion still exists regarding the choice between inferior-vena ...

The external and internal jugular veins are joined by the subclavian vein, which enters the right atrium of the heart as the cranial vena cava (Fig. 1). Figure 1: Dissection of the cranial thorax ...