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

There are lots of bad 'Oh shit' moments throughout training, such as necrotizing soft tissue infections or takebacks for bad ...

Advertisement "It was probable, from his condition, that the bullet had injured the major blood vessels, aorta (main artery from the heart ... vena cava, right kidney and right lobe of the liver.

Others, like rhabdomyosarcoma of the kidneys, can be extremely aggressive and rapidly spread to the liver, lungs ... inferior vena cava, the pancreas, and kidneys. Often, there are no other ...

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 ...

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, ...

Fatty liver disease isn’t just a liver problem — it affects your whole body. Perhaps most importantly, it has major impacts on the heart. Fatty liver disease — both alcohol-related and non ...

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 ...