Women who use the standard form of birth control pill may have a much higher than average risk of dangerous blood clots if they also have a vein malformation seen in a quarter of the population ...

The right common iliac vein is divided preferably under spinal anesthesia, but occasionally under pentothal and curare, or cyclopropane and curare, inhalation anesthesia.

It was decided to tie off each common iliac vein, but profuse bleeding from one of the lower lumbar veins dictated an interruption of the inferior vena cava above the bleeding point.

D to F are from a limb with chronic post-thrombotic obstruction (D, occluded compressed proximal common iliac vein at vessel crossing; E, obstruction of the distal iliac vein with an axial collateral.

In many cases, the clots that cause CTEPH come from veins in the lower half of the body, usually due to deep vein thrombosis (DVT). A risk factor for DVT is compression of the iliac vein in the ...

May-Thurner syndrome: compression of the left common iliac vein on this anteroposterior venogram by the calcified right common iliac artery. Comments 3090D553-9492-4563-8681-AD288FA52ACE ...

Study design: A report of a male subject who sustained paraplegia at T-5 level due to spinal cord injury (SCI) 18 years ago, and in whom, occlusion of the left common iliac vein by a distended ...

Anatomy. The IVC is formed by the merging of the right and left common iliac veins. These veins come together in the abdomen, carrying blood from the lower limbs.

While MTA is generally thought to be rare, a new study by researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University shows that the anomaly is very common in patients with CTEPH – in ...