a Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California b Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California c University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio d Department of Radiation Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California e Department of Radiation Oncology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of South...

SVCS constitutes a serious clinical problem and often represents a definitive loss of vascular access for haemodialysis (HD). The patients must suffer numerous interventions in order to obtain a permanent vascular access for HD. Treatment of SVCS requires endovascular intervention or complex surgical revascularization. We present three patients with SVCS associated with central indwelling cathe...

Intrathoracic tumours in patients with Von Recklinghausen's disease have been widely reported, but there are very few cases of reported intrathoracic giant benign neurofibroma with marked mediastinal shift and superior vena cava syndrome. Patients that present with this pathology should be adequately investigated. Surgical resection has been considered curative.

Corresponding author: Il-Seok Kim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, 445, Gil-dong, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 134-010, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2224-2659, Fax: 82-2-474-0956, E-mail: gns70@ hallym.or.kr This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ...

Polycythemia vera is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by thrombotic complications both in the arterial and venous systems. We report the case of a 55-year-old patient affected by polycythemia vera, presenting with acute superior vena cava syndrome due to thrombosis of the upper part of the superior vena cava. Diagnosis was done clinically and by computed tomography scan and showed an...

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Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) is characterized by gradual, insidious compression or obstruction of the superior vena cava (SVC). The most common etiology of SVCS is related to malignancy such as bronchogenic CA and lymphoma. Other cases have a variety of causes such as chronic infections and chronic inflammations that involve the mediastinum. Spontaneous SVC thrombosis is also known to occ...

Congenital   aortocaval   fistula in association with complex congenital heart disease has never been described before. We represent an adult with tetralogy of fallot and an undiagnosed subclavian artery to superior vena cava fistula in previous catheterisms. He underwent surgical correction, successfully. After 8 months post operation he was doing well with improved functional capacity and no ...

Persistent left superior vena cava is a congenital vascular anomaly, which is possibly arrhythmogenic and thrombogenic, rarely complicated with coronary sinus atresia. We treated a 42-year-old male with Hodgkin's lymphoma requiring central venous catheter placement for intensive chemotherapy. Persistent left superior vena cava was revealed after the insertion of the central venous catheter by t...