A 40-year-old man underwent emergent pulmonary artery thromboembolectomy for pulmonary artery thromboembolism, and an ALN filter was placed in the inferior vena cava immediately after the operation. He had sudden ventricular tachycardia with dyspnea on postoperative day 6. An emergent operation was successfully performed, and the ALN filter was observed at the tricuspid valve with a large amoun...

An 8-month-old male with coronary sinus orifice atresia, left superior vena cava, and single ventricle underwent light-guided coronary sinus unroofing concomitant with bidirectional cavopulmonary anastomosis to circumvent coronary sinus hypertension. During surgery, a 2.25 Fr angioscopic catheter was inserted into the coronary sinus via the left superior vena cava. The coronary sinus, lit by th...

Most of superior vena cava syndrome are caused by malignant tumors involving the mediastinum (usually lung cancer or lymphoma). However, iatrogenic cause has become more important since it has become common to utilize long-term central venous catheters for chemotherapy or hyperalimentation therapy. Although the cancer patients are also at relatively high risk, there are only few case reports of...

A one day old baby who presented with cyanosis was later shown to have an isolated persistent left superior vena cava draining into the left atrium with hypoplastic right superior vena cava. This extremely rare anomaly was diagnosed by cardiac catheterisation at one week. Surgical correction at two weeks, by anastomosis of the innominate vein to the right atrium and by ligation of the left supe...

Implantation of resynchronization implantable cardioverter defibrillator was performed in a patient with persistent left superior vena cava. A dual coil defibrillation lead was inserted in the right ventricle apex via a small innominate vein. Left ventricular and atrial leads were implanted through persistent left superior vena cava. Left ventricular lead was easily implanted into the postero l...

Vena cava filters are widely used to prevent pulmonary embolic events in patients who have known venous thromboses, or in select patients deemed to be at high risk for these events. There are few prospective or well-controlled data regarding the efficacy and appropriate indications for vena cava filter use in surgical patients. High-risk surgical patients such as those who have multiple injurie...

The single ventricle cardiac pathologies are commonly treated with total cavopulmonary anastomosis in the current era. The modality is usually performed in two stages and the bidirectional superior vena cava-pulmonary artery shunt constitutes the first stage; after a certain period, the inferior vena cava is connected to the anastomosis. However, especially in relatively older patients, single ...

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Methods and findings: A 53 year old man with abdominal wall varicosis was reported with a thoracoabdominal aorta aneurysm and severe stenosis of celiac trunk and superior mesenteric artery. There were multiple calcification and non-calcified plaques inside the wall of abdominal aorta and its branches, including arch of Riolan. A Budd-Chiari Syndrome was also reported. The intra-hepatic inferior...

CONTEXT Venous thrombosis has been described in patients with acute and chronic pancreatitis. This is especially common in portal vein, splenic vein and superior mesenteric vein. To the best of our knowledge, involvement of superior vena cava and subclavian vessel due to pancreatitis has not been reported. CASE REPORT We present here a case of an adult male with alcoholic chronic pancreatitis...