Thrombophilic patients undergoing elective neurosurgery who receive a temporary inferior vena cava (IVC) filter show dramatically fewer thrombotic or hemorrhagic complications compared with ...

W.L. Gore & Associates has received FDA approval for the Gore Viabahn Fortegra Venous Stent — the first device indicated to treat deep venous disease in the inferior vena cava, as well as the iliac ...

Kidney cancer is not always confined to the kidney. In advanced cases, this cancer invades the body's biggest vein, the inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood out of the kidneys back to the ...

Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters are widely used in patients who cannot take blood thinners. The IVC is the largest vein in the body, running from the legs to the chest. IVC filters keep blood clots ...

The inferior vena cava (also known as IVC or the posterior vena cava) is a large vein that carries oxygen-depleted blood from the torso and lower body to the right side of the heart. From there the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inferior vena cava filters are recommended for temporary use to prevent pulmonary embolism when anticoagulation ...

(UPDATED) Laser sheaths can safely and successfully enable retrieval of chronic indwelling inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, according to data on 500 people from a long-running, first-in-human study.

Relieving venous congestion using thrombectomy may preserve kidney function in RCC with IVC tumor thrombus. The likely cause of renal dysfunction in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and ...

Physicians at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse describe in the December issue of Urology the first case ever in which doctors used minimally invasive robotic surgery to perform a radical ...

Rates of occult brain metastases in patients (pts) with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC): A cohort study from patients treated across 22 clinical trials. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...