The effect of bladder distention upon iliac veins was studied in 6 adult male patients ().Five of them had no complicating urinary retention and no involvement of the iliac vessels. Of these 5, 3 ...

Key points A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department with back and right upper quadrant abdominal pain that progressed to painful right leg swelling over a few days. His vital signs at ...

Although the formation of collaterals is classically regarded as a compensatory mechanism to bypass and thus alleviate an obstruction, the mechanism and inducement of collateral formation are unknown.

Shall one divide the external or common iliac vein on one side and the common femoral vein on the other? The simplest solution to the problem appears to be to interrupt the inferior vena cava.

Iliac venous outflow obstruction has an important ... A slit-like narrowing of the lumen of a vein, even with no alteration in cross-sectional area, may increase resistance to flow.

A recent study, led by Villalba, followed 113 women (aged 17 to 88) with a blockage in an iliac vein – major veins running from each leg through the pelvis – who underwent stenting after ...

For local clinicians and hospitals, this approach means treating the ultrasound finding of common femoral vein thrombus (regardless of whether iliac DVT is present) as a high-risk condition, actively ...

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Caitland Wright, 26, was initially told she had kidney stones and left in a chair for two days with no diagnosis as her leg ...

Caitland Wright, 26, from Birmingham, had always been healthy and had never suffered from any medical condition until a huge ...