Thrombophilic patients undergoing elective neurosurgery who receive a temporary inferior vena cava (IVC) filter show dramatically fewer thrombotic or hemorrhagic complications compared with ...

Few adverse events are connected to the use of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters to help prevent deep vein blood clots from developing into pulmonary embolisms (PE), according to the findings of the ...

There are currently more than 200,000 bariatric surgeries being performed in the United States each year according to estimates from the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Blood ...

Kidney cancer is not always confined to the kidney. In advanced cases, this cancer invades the body's biggest vein, the inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood out of the kidneys back to the ...

Physicians at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse describe in the December issue of Urology the first case ever in which doctors used minimally invasive robotic surgery to perform a radical ...

Inferior vena cava leiomyosarcoma is a rare but aggressive malignant tumour arising from the smooth muscle layer of the IVC, typically presenting insidiously with non-specific symptoms such as ...

Temple-led research findings suggest practice of implanting inferior vena cava filters in patients on a prophylactic basis prior to bariatric surgery is associated with worse clinical outcomes and ...