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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We re-examined the patient’s initial CT scan from 3 years prior and noted, in hindsight, that the IVC had been completely occluded, visible on the coronal view ().The axial view showed a punctate ...

More information: Peter J. Pappas et al, Pregnancy after iliac vein stenting for pelvic venous insufficiency, Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders (2021).DOI: 10.1016/j.jvsv ...

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 ...