Prosthetic azygo-atrial bypass for palliation of superior vena cava syndrome.

ICD Leads Extraction and Clearing of Access Way in a Patient With Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

Central vein disease is defined as at least 50% narrowing up to total occlusion of central veins of the thorax including superior vena cava, brachiocephalic, subclavian, and internal jugular vein. Thrombosis due to intravascular leads occurs in approximately 30% to 45% of patients early or late after implantation of a pacemaker by transvenous access.In this case, we report a male patient, 65-ye...

Antiphospholipid Syndrome Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Thrombosis

Askin Tumor Presenting as Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

Hybrid palliation for right atrial isomerism associated with obstructive total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage.

A twenty-four-day-old girl, who was prematurely born at 36 weeks of gestation, and weighed 2.2 kg, and diagnosed with right atrial isomerism, functionally single ventricle, bilateral superior vena cava (SVC) and obstructive supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVD) draining to the junction between the right SVC and the right atrium, underwent a hybrid procedure in the opera...

Gigantic aneurysm of a venous bypass graft causing superior vena cava syndrome

A case of a 66-year-old patient 13 years after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) admitted to hospital with typical ischemic chest pain and symptoms of superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) is described. Non-invasive diagnostics confirmed acute coronary syndrome: non-ST-elevated myocardial infarction (ACS NSTEMI). Trans-thoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed a gigantic tumor mass modeling th...