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vena cava
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  • Thomas Stone, true to his word, paved the way for publication of Deepak's study on injuries to the vena cava.†   (source)
  • You remember Professor Asrat used to say that injuries to the vena cava behind the liver are when the surgeon sees God?†   (source)
  • The hepatic veins have the task of taking all the spent blood that has filtered through the liver and returning it to the heart via the vena cava.†   (source)
  • Deepak put a purse-string suture around the right atrium, the upper chamber of the heart that received blood from the vena cava.†   (source)
  • When Junior went airborne, then hit the pavement, his liver kept traveling; its momentum tore the short veins that anchored it to the vena cava, leaving a jagged rent.†   (source)
  • The vena cava is torn for sure.†   (source)
  • This was where the inferior vena cava, the largest vein in the body, carried blood back from the lower limbs and trunk, running through and behind the liver on its way to the heart.†   (source)
  • To get the right lobe free, he also had to cut through liver tissue and disconnect the hepatic veins at the back where they joined the vena cava—the dark side of the liver, the place where the surgeon might "see God" if there was bleeding.†   (source)
  • One advantage of Deepak's decision to give me Shiva's right lobe was that it fit more naturally under the dome of my diaphragm, and its hilum—the place where the vessels entered—was oriented more naturally toward the vena cava.†   (source)
  • Then he slid his newly fashioned tube into the atrium, using the purse string to cinch the tissue around the tube which he pushed down through the orifice of the inferior vena cava, and down to where our problem was.†   (source)
  • It was still very high risk, but by publishing their experience with such tricks as bypassing portal blood to the superior vena cava during the long surgery, or using the "University of Wisconsin solution" to better preserve cadaver livers, results were improving.†   (source)
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