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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram in Chennai has successfully treated a rare and complex case of advanced kidney cancer in a 30-year-old woman, where the tumour had extended into major blood ...