The differential diagnoses of SVC syndrome include cardiac tamponade and right ventricular dysfunction. Dedicated cardiac imaging with echocardiography can distinguish between these diagnoses ...

Both sides of the neck have one of each type. The jugular veins allow blood to move from the head to the superior vena cava, the largest vein in the upper body. The superior vena cava then ...

It is the lower, or inferior, part of the vena cava—a large vein also made up of the superior vena cava that carries blood from the head, neck, arms, and chest in the upper body to the heart.

A novel implantable inferior vena cava sensor is safe and feasible and shows clinically relevant results in patients with ...