Axillary vein puncture guided by ultrasound, using a readily learned technique, was superior to cephalic vein dissection via cut-down for implantation of cardiac device leads in a small, multicenter, ...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established and guideline recommended therapy in patients with congestive heart failure with severely reduced systolic function and left bundle branch ...

Veins are blood vessels that carry oxygen-depleted blood from the capillaries back to the heart. In human anatomy, blood flows from a variety of smaller veins, draining into the cephalic vein. This is ...

The Institutional Review Board of Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital (IRB No. 2019-12-005) approved this retrospective single-center study and waived the requirement of written informed consent ...

The endoscopic device manufactured by Maquet was originally developed for harvesting of the saphenous vein and radial artery as conduits for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. These vessels are ...

Owing to the overall poor medical health of patients with end-stage renal disease, we have sought alternatives to the use of general anesthesia for access procedures. Furthermore, since local ...

Angelina Jolie, 42, has seemed to have a thin figure with eye catching bulging veins on her arms and legs, but is it something she should keep an eye on? “The large vein on her forearm is the ...

The accessory cephalic vein is the name for a variable vein that travels alongside the forearm’s radial or thumb-side border. The vein passes this way in order to get to the cephalic vein that is ...