The superior vena cava and inferior vena cava are very large veins that bring deoxygenated blood to your heart to get oxygen. Your inferior vena cava, your body’s largest vein, carries oxygen-depleted blood back to your heart from the lower part of your body (below your diaphragm).
What Does the Vena Cava Do? The venae cavae are veins, so they have one job — to carry blood from all the tissues and organs of the body to the heart. The superior vena cava carries blood...
Medscape: Superior Vena Cava Syndrome: An Increasingly Frequent Complication of Cardiac Procedures
Bridge Plus was designed for rare, life-threatening emergencies to help control bleeding during superior vena cava (SVC) tears, ...
Science Daily: Endovascular therapy best for superior vena cava syndrome, review finds
Nature: Superior Vena Cava Flow During Hypothermia in Asphyxiated Infants: A Preliminary Report
Superior Vena Cava Flow During Hypothermia in Asphyxiated Infants: A Preliminary Report
ascopubs.org: In-hospital outcomes of patients with lung cancer with and without superior vena cava thrombosis: A nationwide analysis.
In-hospital outcomes of patients with lung cancer with and without superior vena cava thrombosis: A nationwide analysis.
Extract: The electrocardiograms of 26 patients with persistent left superior vena cava (SVC) draining into the coronary sinus were reviewed. Left axis of P waves between +15 and −29 degrees was ...
EurekAlert!: Review by Temple scientists: Endovascular therapy best for superior vena cava syndrome
(Philadelphia, PA) - Like a blocked water line, obstructions in blood vessels in the human circulatory system can cause serious problems. This is especially the case in superior vena cava syndrome ...