Impaired cerebral venous drainage is also known to increase intracranial pressure and result in papilloedema. Jugular vein thrombosis is uncommon but may rarely cause papilloedema.

When moving the right internal jugular vein out of the way to access the lymph node, they found a surprise – a second internal jugular vein was nestled behind the first.

CONTAMINATED heroin has been ruled out as the cause of death of a homeless Dublin man, who, in fact, died from a haemorrhage after his jugular vein had 'leaked' in hospital.

Research has emerged casting doubt on a popular new theory that multiple sclerosis is caused or worsened by blockages in the jugular veins.

Posteroanterior chest radiograph showing the catheter tip (arrow) of an implantable central venous access device in the right internal jugular vein of a 46-year-old man with sickle cell disease.

After being fed through the jugular vein, a tiny, "thought-controlled" device can record brain activity from a nearby blood vessel, thus eliminating the need for doctors to crack open the skull, a ...

Conclusions In patients with heart failure, elevated jugular venous pressure and a third heart sound are each independently associated with adverse outcomes, including progression of heart failure.

They are most commonly put into one of the jugular veins in the neck or the subclavian vein under the collarbone. There’s no need to think that the port was put in incorrectly.

Lemierre’s syndrome is characterised by thrombosis in the jugular vein, a major blood vessel that stretches from the head to the upper chest.

The external jugular vein lies lateral to the sternomastoid muscle and is more superficial than the internal jugular vein, so is therefore easier to see. However, the external jugular vein can become ...

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