Percutaneous Management of Chronic Central Venous Occlusive Disease

Percutaneous management of chronic central venous occlusive disease.

Stenosis or occlusion of the central veins and/or vena cava can cause painful and debilitating symptoms for affected patients. Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) can develop acutely or progressively from external compression or intrinsic obstruction. The clinical signs and symptoms result from venous hypertension and reduced blood flow in the superior vena cava (SVC) or central veins emptying i...

Management of Chronic Gluteal Follicular Occlusive Disease

Venous Occlusive Disease

Our understanding of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) has greatly increased in recent years due primarily to improved radiographic methods of diagnosis (1,2). Prior to the advent of modern neuroimaging, estimates of the incidence of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) relied largely on autopsy series (3,4). More recent studies that employ radiographic techniques have demonstrated a higher incidenc...

Retinal Venous Occlusive Disease

Retinal vein occlusion is an eye condition commonly seen by retinal specialists. It is second only to diabetic retinopathy as a cause of visual loss due to retinal vascular disease. There are two forms of retinal vein occlusion, branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) and central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). While there are similarities in the pathogenesis and clinical nature of these two events...

Risk of Stroke in Hypertensive Diabetic Chronic Kidney Disease Patients after Central Venous Catheter placement

Background: Stroke is the leading cause of death in patients with kidney failure. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is strongly associated with stroke with various purported mechanisms proposed and End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients are in a condition where both kidneys are impaired and require kidney transplantation or dialysis, and unfortunately, the number of patients with ESRD has grown rap...