Objective: To report an unusual cause of femoral vein compression in a spinal cord injury (SCI) patient. Design: A case report of a SCI patient in whom the strap of a urinal produced compression of ...

For critically ill patients requiring dialysis, insertion of the catheter in a vein in the neck does not appear to reduce the risk of infection compared to vein access in the upper leg, except for ...

AS hospitalized patients in increasing numbers survive a multiplicity of other medical and surgical crises, pulmonary embolism continues as a chief immediate cause of death. Although anticoagulant ...

1 Department of Orthopaedics, Sports Injuries Unit, “Agios Pavlos” General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 2 Department of Radiology, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece ...

We spoke with Dr. Smuclovisky about his approach to treating chronic lower extremity venous thrombosis and his use of the ...

Interv Cardiol. 2012;4(5):527-536. The venous anatomy of the lower leg is made up of two axial systems, a superficial and a deep venous system. The superficial system lies above the muscle fascia in ...

Central venous catheterization of the subclavian vein was associated with the lowest risk for bloodstream infections and symptomatic thrombosis compared with insertions at the jugular or femoral veins ...

a, the diagram of transmissive-detected laser speckle contrast imaging (TR-LSCI) system. b, the diagram of conventional reflective-detected LSCI system. c, comparison between TR-LSCI and conventional ...