Don’t get it twisted. While spider and varicose veins are a source of aesthetic ire for many, there are key, and potentially life-threatening, differences between the two conditions.

The veteran all-star Milwaukee Bucks guard was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis (a blood clot in his lower right leg). He will be out of action for a significant period of time. Here's some ...

For fitness enthusiasts and athletes, visible veins are often seen as a badge of honour, a physical marker of peak conditioning. While genetics play a role in determining vascular patterns ...

At the start of the second period of Harvard men’s hockey’s second quarterfinal game against Clarkson, the Crimson could feel its postseason hopes slipping away. But instead of giving in to ...

This showed extravasation around the innominate artery with rapid filling of the brachiocephalic vein. On selective angiography, the arterial lesion appeared to be located at the level of the ...

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Finally, a fourth type of vascular ring with RAA is a RAA with an aberrant innominate artery. The first branch is the right carotid and does not classify as a RAA branching pattern; one may be ...

Department of Radiology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Fetal Cardiology Clinic, Alnas Hospital, Cairo, Egypt Herein, we present a case of isolated inferior vena cava (IVC) interruption with ...

There was a dilated hemiazygos vein coursing left sided retro aortic in the posterior mediastinum filling into the left innominate vein and eventually through the right superior vena cava (SVC) into ...

This content was created by our physicians and experts. PICC stands for "peripherally inserted central catheter." This intravenous catheter is inserted through the skin, into a vein in the arm, in the ...