Sentences with phrase «vena cava veins»

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

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Your baby, now growing rapidly, may get pressed against the vena cava, which is the main vein that carries blood back to your heart from your lower body.
That's because the weight of the baby can compress the vena cava, the vein that transports blood to your heart.
William Harvey sliced open a live snake and, while pinching its vena cava, or main vein, watched as the heart into which it pumped blood grew paler and smaller.
Traditionally this complicated procedure, inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombectomy, is performed using a large open incision, primarily because the vein is often difficult to reach.
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.
Sit - ups and other «on your back» ab moves are not advised because the baby's pressure can cut off circulation in your inferior vena cava (important vein that returns blood to your heart).
The weight of the baby compresses the inferior vena cava, which is the largest vein of the body.
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.
The adrenal glands are situated along the vena cava (the large vein in the abdominal cavity) near each kidney.
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.
The poorly oxygenated blood returns to the heart through the femoral vein, then the iliac veins, and eventually the caudal vena cava (labeled as Vein in this pictuvein, then the iliac veins, and eventually the caudal vena cava (labeled as Vein in this pictuVein in this picture).
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.
Single intrahepatic PSS is a communication between the portal vein and the caudal vena cava.
An adrenal tumor had infiltrated her vena cava (the major vein returning to the heart) and she was dying.
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.
This compresses the abdominal blood vessels such as the portal vein and caudal vena cava.
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.
Most commonly, extrahepatic shunts are found connecting the portal vein or left gastric vein to the caudal vena cava.
Surgery was considered, but further examination found that tumor had also invaded the vena cava, the major vein carrying deoxygenated blood back to the heart.
This vein is called the vena cava.
Right side valvular disease arises when blood has collected in the vena cava and jugular vein, which causes the heart to pump faster and work harder; this eventually causes the heart to enlarge, forcing the heart's internal chamber capacity to decrease, which means less blood can be pumped out.
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