An aortocaval fistula is a rare complication of an abdominal aortic aneurysm that requires immediate surgical repair. Doctors can choose to treat it with either open or endovascular surgery.

The major blood vessels that are connected to the heart include the aorta, the superior vena cava, the inferior vena cava, the pulmonary artery (which takes oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the ...

The aorta starts at your heart and reaches up toward ... Your largest veins are the superior and inferior vena cava. Your superior vena cava carries blood from your upper body to the heart.

Deoxygenated venous blood returns to the right atrium through three vessels: superior vena cava - returning blood from the upper ... which then pumps the blood through the aortic valve into the aorta ...

"It is widely believed that lying women flat on their back during labor can lead to dangerously low blood pressure caused by the compression of both the inferior vena cava and the aorta due to the ...

Case 1. L.L. (M.G.H. 860748), a 52-year-old man, was admitted to the private service of the Massachusetts General Hospital on July 7, 1961, because of shortness of . . . Select the format you ...