June 7, 2012 (Lisbon, Portugal) — Internal jugular vein (IJV) abnormalities are a newly identified risk factor for cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), a new study shows. In addition, color ...

Spontaneous internal jugular vein thrombosis is a rare vascular disorder. In the pre-antibiotic era this condition was a well-known complication of head and neck infection. 1 The leading cause at ...

Vascular. 2008;16(2):73-79. Despite the general recommendations to treat with anticoagulation, 40% of the patients in the current study found to have an acute UTDVT were not treated with ...

Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine's branch campus in Baton Rouge, is the lead author of a paper ...

Jugular veins are popular in horror flicks for their gushing at the mouths of vampires, ... Any thrombosis is treated with anticoagulation medicines, and if infection is present, ...

For the study, researchers randomly assigned 3,027 patients to have catheters placed in one of three locations: nontunneled central venous catheterization to the subclavian, jugular, or femoral vein.

A 36 year-old woman presented with headaches, seizures, and numbness affecting the right side of her body. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis. Magnetic Resonance Venogram (MRV). Note the absence of the left ...

Internal jugular vein thrombosis presenting as a painful neck mass due to a spontaneous dislocated subclavian port catheter as long-term complication: a case report. Cases J 2009; 2: 7991. OpenUrl ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Two Cases of Ligature of the Internal Jugular Vein for Infective Thrombosis of the Sigmoid Sinus Due to Purulent Otitis Media; One ...