Find out what you need to know about the vena cava. Learn about these important blood vessels' location, functions, and disorders.

The surgeons then clamped the aorta beyond the catheter and clamped the pulmonary artery and venae cavae, thus isolating the heart from the rest of the body, which thereafter received no circulation.

They stitched the venae cavae to the places where the pulmonary veins had entered the left auricle, and stitched the pulmonary veins to the places where the venae cavae had entered the right auricle.

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.

A 41-year-old woman presents with severe pneumonia, and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) develops. Despite mechanical ventilation, her oxygenation deteriorates. The use of extracorpor ...

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.

Blood from the body enters the right atrium through two large veins, the venae cavae. Blood from the lungs enters the left atrium through pulmonary veins.

In venovenous ECMO, desaturated blood is withdrawn from the venae cavae and pumped through an oxygenator, where gas exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place. The oxygenated blood is then ...