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T he heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Optional Vena Cava Filters: What, Why, and When John A. Kaufman Disclosures Vascular. 2007;15 (5):304-313. 0 When to Retrieve a Filter The sole purpose of a vena cava filter is to prevent PE.

A deep vein thrombosis (DVT) involving the inferior vena cava (IVC), iliac veins, or common femoral veins should be considered a proximal DVT. Cross-sectional imaging with venous phase computed ...

Soon, she learned about the injury to Piccirill’s vena cava vein, which could have “kill [ed] her very quickly,” Kramer says.

Smeets RR, Demir D, van Laanen J, Schurink GWH, Mees BME Use of covered stent grafts as treatment of traumatic venous injury to the inferior vena cava and iliac veins: a systematic review.

Although the insertion of inferior vena cava filters declined between 2013 and 2021, the rate of retrievals remained low, according to a study published in JAMA.In the retrospective observational ...

A clot occurs when blood, which is usually liquid and flowing, thickens, becomes more gelatinous, and forms a clump. This is ...

Find out what you need to know about the vena cava. Learn about these important blood vessels' location, functions, and disorders.

Scimitar syndrome, a rare congenital heart disease, involves an anomalous pulmonary venous return where the right pulmonary veins return to the inferior vena cava instead of the left atrium. It is ...