The venae cavae bring this blood back. What Does the Vena Cava Do? The venae cavae are veins, so they have one job — to carry blood from all the tissues and organs of the body to the heart.

Then they took the venae cavae, the two great veins that carry used blood back to the heart, cut them away from their normal position leading into the right upper chamber ...

On that Friday, Pepper's chest would have been opened like the other dogs, her sternum separated, and her venae cavae tied off to empty her heart of blood. It's not clear when or how the procedure ...

Bilateral venae cavae and prominent atrial appendages were seen in the mouse fetus; in human fetuses, atrial appendages were small, and a single right superior vena cava was present.

There are 2 main types of ECMO: venovenous ECMO (for respiratory support) and venoarterial ECMO (for cardiac and mixed cardiac and respiratory support). In venovenous ECMO, desaturated blood is ...