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Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2022 The persistent left superior vena cava is the most common venous anomaly in the systemic drainage in adults and tends to be asymptomatic. The persistent left superior vena cava causes rhythm disorders such as tachyarrhythmias or bradyarrhythmias.
David Ricardo Echeverry +3 more
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Superior vena cava syndrome: Clinical considerations
Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2018 Background: The superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) is a rare pathological process caused by the superior vena cava obstruction (SVCO). Aim: To know the main causes of SVCS in a third level hospital.
B. Pech-Alonso +3 more
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Anesthetic management of superior vena cava syndrome due to anterior mediastinal mass
Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2012 Anesthetic management of superior vena cava syndrome carries a possible risk of life-threatening complications such as cardiovascular collapse and complete airway obstruction during anesthesia.
Kapil Chaudhary +4 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018 Background The incidence of superior vena cava syndrome within the United States is roughly 15,000 cases per year. Superior vena cava syndrome is a potentially life-threatening medical condition; however, superior vena cava syndrome is not fatal in the ...
Jason Hinton +7 more
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Superior vena cava obstruction after the Glenn procedure
Autopsy and Case Reports, 2019 Acute obstruction of superior vena cava anastomosis right after the Glenn procedure may lead to tragic consequences. We describe the case of a one-year-old child with tricuspid atresia and a previous Blalock-Taussig shunt procedure, who presented severe ...
Marina Costa Jonas +3 more
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Richter's transformation presenting with superior vena cava syndrome
Journal of Oncological Sciences, 2017 In the present study, we report a 65-year old man who had been diagnosed earlier as having chronic lymphocytic leukemia and treated for 2 years with fludarabine.
Nuri Karadurmus +3 more
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Superior vena cava syndrome as a result of thrombosis in a child with nephrotic syndrome
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1997 A three-year-old nephrotic girl is presented with vena cava superior syndrome. Angiography showed obliteration of the distal ends of both axillary veins and echocardiographic examination revealed a mobile mass in the right atrium.
S Calişkan +5 more
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Superior vena cava syndrome in a patient with previous cardiac surgery: what else should we suspect? [PDF]
Diagnostic Pathology, 2010 Background Although mediastinal tumors compressing or invading the superior vena cava represent the major causes of the superior vena cava syndrome, benign processes may also be involved in the pathogenesis of this medical emergency.
Dolou Paraskevi +6 more
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Left inferior vena cava with nutcracker syndrome: A case report
Radiology Case Reports, 2018 Nutcracker syndrome is a condition where there is compression of the left renal vein between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery causing symptoms.
Luis German Pulgarin Ricardo, MD +2 more
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Surgical Treatment of Malignant Thymoma Invading the Superior Vena Cava
Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 2018 This paper introduced surgical treatment of malignancy-related superior vena cava syndrome. Typical cases were presented with diagnostic radiology results.
Lin XU
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