Sentences with phrase «vena cava of»

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By this stage of your pregnancy you will probably have been advised not to lay on your back to avoid your growing bump pressing on the vena cava blood vessel.

Side sleeping allows you to keep pressure off of your back and the vena cava.

Lying on your back can cause your enlarging uterus and the weight of your growing baby to rest against and compress major blood vessels, particularly the aorta and the inferior vena cava.

But the bulk of the evidence suggests that compression of the vena cava very rarely causes problems.

That's because the weight of the baby can compress the vena cava, the vein that transports blood to your heart.

This is because of the weight of the baby and uterus can compress the inferior vena cava, which takes blood from your lower body to the heart, which may cause dizziness, sweaty and have palpitations.

As the needle tip progressed from the high right atrium to the inferior vena cava, the thin foramen ovale manifested as a hypoechoic region between the thick limbus fossae ovalis and the tendon of Todaro (with a diagonal artifact from the ICE catheter and sheath).

«Endobronchial forceps effective in retrieval of tip - embedded inferior vena cava (IVC) filters.»

The Penn Medicine team studied 114 adult patients, 77 women and 37 men, who visited the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for removal of a tip - embedded retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filter between January 2005 and April 2014.

The stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR) was used to treat inferior vena cava tumor thrombus (IVC - TT) that reached the heart, a complication of kidney cancer in which the tumor extends into the venous system − the system of veins that return blood to the heart.

It is not a perfect rendition of the heart — it shows two chambers instead of four, and the vena cava, the large vein that carries blood from the body to the heart, is on the far left instead of the right.

The weight of the baby compresses the inferior vena cava, which is the largest vein of the body.

Many important blood vessels travel through the abdomen, including the aorta, inferior vena cava, and dozens of their smaller branches.

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The veins commonly used to collect blood samples are the cranial vena cava inside the top of the sternum and the jugular vein in the neck.

An adrenal tumor removal is traditionally one of the most challenging procedures in small animal surgery, as the adrenal gland is located in a difficult position next the vena cava (the largest vein in the abdomen) as well as the renal arteries and veins (to the kidneys), the aorta, and other vital structures.

Surgical retrieval of worms from the right atrium, right ventricle, and vena cavae via jugular venotomy can be attempted in patients with high worm burdens detected by echocardiography.

If a large number of worms are present they can literally fill up the right atrium and caudal vena cava.

As the stomach begins to turn, a cascade of pathological events begin to occur: compression of the caudal vena cava and portal vein (blood flow to the heart), reduced cardiac output and myocardial ischemia, shock, perfusion to critical organs is reduced and fatality if not corrected quickly.

The combination of arterial tissue damage, blood vessel blockage, and pulmonary edema all lead to an increase in the pressure in the vena cava and the right side of the heart.

As the problem progresses, respiration difficulties due to the enlarged stomach and a loss of adequate blood flow through the heart (decreased cardiac function due to pressure on the large vena cava and hepatic veins that returns blood to the heart) result in hypoxia (inadequate oxygen), shock and collapse.

Precaval syndrome (swelling of the head, neck, and / or thoracic limbs) is possible if the mediastinal mass causes compression of or invades the cranial vena cava.

Because of the proximity of the adrenal glands to major abdominal vessels - the aorta and vena cava — this surgery is complicated and should only be performed by an experienced surgeon.

A failure of the ductus venosus to close causes an intrahepatic shunt, while extrahepatic shunts are usually a developmental abnormality of the vitelline veins, which connect the portal vein to the caudal vena cava.

Part of this clot can easily detach and flow with the blood stream up the inferior vena cava, through the right side of the heart and into the pulmonary artery causing a PE which, if large enough, may obstruct the circulation to the lung and strain the heart, causing almost instant death.

This medical device, marketed as temporary and retrievable, is presumably placed in the vena cava vein until the threat of an embolism has passed.