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Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) is a result of obstruction of the superior vena cava. It is a medical emergency and requires immediate diagnosis and treatment. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ...
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The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ...
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A medical emergency is an injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to a persons health or life which requires help from a doctor or hospital. ...
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Signs and symptoms
Signs and symptoms include: facial and arm edema, fullness feeling in the head, dyspnea, tachypnea, difficulty swallowing, venous distension, cyanosis Dyspnea (R06. ...
Edema (American English) or oedema (British English), formerly known as dropsy or hydropsy, is swelling of any organ or tissue due to accumulation of excess lymph fluid, without an increase of the number of cells in the affected tissue. ...
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A headache is a condition of pain in the head; sometimes neck or upper back pain may also be interpreted as a headache. ...
SVCS can cause - venous distension, airway obstruction, decrease cardiac filling and output, and increase likelihood of cerebral edema orthopnea ...
Superior vena cava syndrome usually presents more gradually, with an increase in symptoms over time.[1]
Etiology Approximately 90% of cases are associated with a cancerous tumor that is compressing the superior vena cava. Syphilis and tuberculosis have also been known to cause superior vena cava syndrome. For more information on infectious causes of superior vena cava syndrome, see the syphilis and tuberculosis (if there isn't a section to superior vena cava syndrome there already, it'll be added sooner or later). Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. ...
Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease that is caused by mycobacteria, primarily Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ...
It can be caused by invasion or compression by a pathological process or by thrombosis in the vein itself. Thrombosis is the formation of a clot or thrombus inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. ...
Before antibiotics, untreated infections were the most common cause of SVCS. Now malignacies (in particular, lung cancer) cause most SVCS's. Staphylococcus aureus - Antibiotics test plate. ...
In medicine, malignant is a clinical term that is used to describe a clinical course that progresses rapidly to death. ...
Lung cancer is a transformation and expansion of lung tissue, and is the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, responsible for 1. ...
Common cancers that cause SVCS includes: Bronchogenic carcinomas including small cell and non-small cell lung carcinoma, Burkitt lymphoma, lymphoblastic lymphomas, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (rare), and other acute leukemia
Prognosis Without treatment, most patients are dead within a month, and even with treatment, 90% die within two and a half years. This relates to the cancerous causes of SVC that are 90% of the cases.
The average age of onset of disease is 54 years of age.
Diagnosis An x-ray usually shows a mediastinal mass (tumor) that is compressing the superior vena cava.
Diagnosis : chest x ray, ct scan of head and neck, tissue biopsy,and venography
Treatment modalities include: Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. ...
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Thrombolysis is the breakdown (lysis) by pharmacological means, of blood clots. ...
An anticoagulant is a substance that prevents coagulation; that is, it stops blood from clotting. ...
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See also Pembertons sign is the development of facial plethora, distended neck and head superficial veins, inspiratory stridor and elevation of the jugular venous pressure (JVP) upon raising of the patients both arms above his/her head simultaneously (Pembertons maneuver). ...
References - ^ Beeson MS. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome. eMedicine.com. Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic561.htm. Accessed on: December 21, 2006.
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