The knife barely missed piercing the superior vena cava, a vein that carries blood from the head, arms and upper body to the heart, he told reporters.
22.
During subclavian vein central line placement, the catheter can be accidentally pushed into the internal jugular vein on the same side instead of the superior vena cava.
23.
The tip of the catheter can also be misdirected into the contralateral ( opposite side ) subclavian vein in the neck, rather than into the superior vena cava.
24.
The "'sinoatrial node "'( "'SA node "') is a group of cells positioned on the wall of the right atrium, near the entrance of the superior vena cava.
25.
The right and left vertebral veins drain the vertebrae and muscles into the right subclavian vein and into the superior vena cava, into the right atrium of the heart.
26.
This enables the interventional radiologist to gain access to the patient's hepatic vein by traveling from the superior vena cava into the inferior vena cava and finally the hepatic vein.
27.
These include superior vena cava syndrome ( SVCS ), and thrombosis of the lateral sinus, superior sagittal sinus, internal jugular vein, or of the Great Cerebral Vein of Galen itself.
28.
This happens at two areas : where the aorta and pulmonary trunk leave the heart and where the superior vena cava, inferior vena cava and pulmonary veins enter the heart.
29.
In superior vena cava syndrome, obstruction of the superior vena cava by a tumour ( mass effect ) causes facial swelling cyanosis and dilatation of the veins of the head and neck.
30.
In superior vena cava syndrome, obstruction of the superior vena cava by a tumour ( mass effect ) causes facial swelling cyanosis and dilatation of the veins of the head and neck.
