Congenital absence of the inferior vena cava

Congenital absence of inferior vena cava.

Congenital Absence of Suprarenal Inferior Vena Cava

92 Hansraj Riteesh Bookun is currently a Vascular Surgery Registrar at the University Hospital Geelong in Australia . He will be formally starting his training under the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in February 2016 at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. His other interests include automotive racing and karate. He has spent most of his teenage years actively competing in karate but has now ...

Congenital vena cava inferior agenesis

A patient aged 25 years with lower extremity deep vein thrombosis in the course of vena cava inferior agenesis is described. This very rare malformation can be connected with chronic venous insufficiency or thrombotic complications. In such cases other congenital abnormalities should be excluded and suspicion of vena cava inferior agenesis should always be taken into consideration in young pati...

Perforation of Inferior Vena Cava by Inferior Vena Cava Filter

Supervising Section Editor: Sean O. Henderson, MD Submission history: Submitted June 13, 2012; Accepted August 6, 2012 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2012.8.12795 [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):161-162.] Sarah Unterman, MD* Tad Nair, MD† Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois Univ...

Patent abdominal subcutaneous veins caused by congenital absence of the inferior vena cava: a case report

INTRODUCTION Patent paraumbilical and abdominal subcutaneous veins are found frequently as collaterals in patients due to portal hypertension mainly in liver cirrhosis. CASE PRESENTATION For evaluation of portal hypertension in a 72-year-old Caucasian man without liver cirrhosis, magnetic resonance imaging with gadolinium contrast-enhancement was performed and demonstrated a missing inferior ...