The use of pacemakers and central venous catheters (CVC) has become commonplace in the field of medicine. In the past, superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome was almost always associated with malignant occlusion of the SVC. However, with the increased use of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) almost 30% of all cases are related to the use of intravascular devices today. We...

Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome is an unusual complication of pacemaker and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation. It is believed to be due to SVC thrombosis with or without stenosis induced by endothelial disruption from repeated mechanical trauma by the leads. A 58-year-old man presented with gradual swelling of his face, neck, and upper extremities of 10 days duration. A pace...

We report a case of locally advanced excavated non-small cell lung cancer with superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome that underwent four cycles of induction chemotherapy. Due to early treatment failure and the impossibility applying radical radiotherapy, a decision was made to perform surgery. The patient underwent right intrapericardial pneumonectomy with en-bloc resection of the SVC, azygos vein ...

Modern this paper proposes non dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) which has feature of adaptive crowding distance for finding optimal location and sizing of Static Var Compensators (SVC) in order to minimize real power losses and voltage deviation and also to improve voltage profile of a power system at the same time. While finding the optimal location and size of SVC, single line ou...

This paper presents the application of discrete event system in the field of power system. In power system there are various components which required control and coordination when they are in operation. The theory of discrete event system has been applied in the application part of power system. The discrete nature of ULTC and discrete switching behavior of SVC are best suited for the supervis...

BACKGROUND Cardiac blood flow measurements are useful in the haemodynamic management of neonates. Cardiac blood flows can be estimated with functional echocardiography as follows; flow in Superior Vena Cava (SVC), Right Ventricular Outflow (RVO) and Left Ventricular Outflow (LVO). Studies in preterm infants have shown that abnormal superior vena cava flow is associated with poor neurodevelopmen...

We report a case of superior vena cava (SVC) thrombosis in a patient with liver cirrhosis and peritoneovenous surgical Denver shunt, successfully treated by angioplasty. In 2005, a 75-year-old man with a criptogenetic liver cirrhosis and peritoneovenous surgical Denver shunt was admitted to our hospital for chylous ascites. Venography showed a stenosis near the junction of the SVC with the righ...

In this paper, we explore coding architectures for camera surveillance applications. For this purpose we propose a Scalable Video Codec (SVC) based on wavelet transformation. The emphasis in the research is on trading-off the coder complexity, e.g. motion-compensation stages, compression efficiency and end-toend delay of the video chain. Within our architecture of choice, t+2D, many complexity-...

Scalable Video Coding is the latest extension of the famous Advance Video Coding standard. The main advantage of SVC is that it can provide scalability for visual services which are serving customers with heterogeneous network conditions and terminals’ capabilities. Nevertheless, the multimedia service research community and industry have not been able to fully utilize the entire potential of t...