Prenatal yoga can be beneficial for the mother and baby. It may help reduce stress and decrease premature delivery. However, ...

A Michigan woman says an appointment a few weeks ago with a suburban doctor was her last hope to try to beat her cancer. To win that fight, he’d have to do some heavy lifting.

Key points A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department with back and right upper quadrant abdominal pain that progressed to painful right leg swelling over a few days. His vital signs at ...

Key messages • There are currently no studies with information available to guide patients' and doctors' choices regarding treatments for complex abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). • It is difficult ...

Despite intervention, hematuria worsened, necessitating abdominal CT. Imaging identified proximal migration of the left double-J stent into the inferior vena cava, with no evidence of vascular injury.

Summary The inferior vena cava is one of two parts that make up the vena cava. The IVC carries blood from the legs, feet, and organs in the abdomen and pelvis to the right side of the heart. The IVC ...

Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter. An IVC filter is a small metal device to help stop your blood clots from moving in your veins. They look like an upside-down umbrella.

After base-line observations of cardiac outputs and pressures in the inferior vena cava, hepatic wedge, femoral artery and intra-abdominal ascitic fluid, withdrawal of ascitic fluid was begun ...

Suprarenal inferior vena cava ligation: all is not lost. Indian Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 8 (2):p 169-172, Apr–Jun 2021. doi: 10.4103/ijves.ijves_73_20 ...

The filter was initially placed in her inferior vena cava (IVC), the body's largest vein tasked with bringing deoxygenated blood from the lower body back up to the heart.