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The vena cava is a large vein that collects blood from either the upper or lower half of your ... Tubes called stents can be placed inside a blood vessel to allow blood flow. Sources Update History.

Superior vena cava syndrome occurs when a major vein that can become blocked either with a blood clot ... (2014, August 19). Palliative treatment of superior vena cava syndrome with nitinol stents.

Vascular stent implantation is feasible and likely to provide clinical benefit in select patients who have central vascular obstruction due to fibrosing mediastinitis ... 77 stents were used to treat ...

A systematic review on the treatment of superior vena caval obstruction in lung cancer identified 23 non-randomised studies (159 patients) examining the use of stents. The review reported 95% (151 out ...

When this patient came to the E.D., he was often given intravenous fluids to try to fill up a suspected empty tank. It never seemed to help. That made his doctors think that in his case the cause ...

Stent placement for vena caval obstruction is a minimally invasive procedure that involves inserting a catheter into a large vein, usually in the groin, and passing it into the narrowed area under ...

The stent pushes against your blood vessel walls to hold them open. The doctor may use a device called a stent retriever to grab the clot and remove it. Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filter ...

Compression or obstruction of the superior vena cava, a major vein in your body, can lead to superior vena cava syndrome, or SVCS. It’s treatable, but most cases are caused by cancer. The ...

The GORE VIAFORT Device Pivotal Clinical Study is evaluating the device in a treatment range of 10–28 mm diameter for iliofemoral veins and the inferior vena cava.