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The Superior Vena Cava Syndrome: Clinical Characteristics and Evolving Etiology

Abstract: Malignancy is the most common cause of the superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome. With the increasing use of ... The patients with pseudotumor and hematoma after surgery were treated with antibi... read more

Late Vascular Occlusion of Central Lines in Pediatric Malignancies

Four patients had required urokinase instillations, and one developed superior vena cava syndrome; 4 had a CVL-related infection ... 2 of 10 children with central venous thrombosis after cardiac surge... read more

Surgeons refine procedure for life-threatening congenital heart defect

For children born with life-threating hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), reconstructive surgeries ... was to create a venous shunt between the pulmonary artery and superior vena cava (a cavopulmo... read more

Long-Term Central Venous Access

A history of vascular access catheter insertion, deep venous thrombosis of an upper extremity vein or central vein, thoracic surgery, neck surgery, irradiation, mediastinal and thoracic disease, or a ... read more

Woman Receives Rare Heart Surgery Risky Operation Could Be A First In Valley

Doctors from Grand View Hospital, West Rockhill Township, had placed the port in the blood vessel to monitor the effects of a medicine Watts was taking for Sjorgren's syndrome ... Hospital's new open ... read more

AHA: Little 'Kemp the Warrior' Battles Heart Defect

Four days after his birth, the couple sat beside their son following an open-heart surgery to treat a rare congenital ... Called the Glenn procedure, it involved connecting the superior vena cava -- a ... read more

New heart for baby blue

Fortunately for the one-year-old, cardiac ... superior vena cava and lungs and then while connecting the right superior vena cava and lungs. This arrests blood circulation in the body and is like a ne... read more

Chapter XVIII.9. Hydrocephalus

Imaging studies demonstrate hydrocephalus and aqueductal stenosis. A ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedure is performed by a neurosurgeon. Following surgery ... by way of the jugular vein and superior ... read more

Motion-Compensation Techniques in Neonatal and Fetal MR Imaging

SUMMARY: Fetal and neonatal MR imaging is increasingly used as a complementary diagnostic tool to sonography. MR imaging is an ideal technique for imaging fetuses and neonates because of the absence o... read more

General Trauma, Management of Polytrauma Patients

Orthopaedic Management of polytrauma patients will have certain principles and these principles are: · Pelvic fractures are an emergency · Compartment syndrome ... inferior vena cava by the uterus. Th... read more

Late Diagnosis of Coarctation Despite Prenatal Ultrasound and Postnatal Pulse Oximetry

One was diagnosed postmortem after ... cardiac defects needing surgery. The additional defects that we accepted were as follows: a small ventricular septal defect (VSD), a bicuspid aortic valve withou... read more

The Superior Vena Cava Syndrome: Clinical Characteristics and Evolving Etiology

Supported by HL 07123 from the National Heart Lung and ... underwent thoracic surgery for lymph node resection and superior vena cava bypass grafting. Most of the patients with intravascular devices p... read more