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Colgate junior quarterback Ryan Vena, who was held out last week with a right shoulder injury but will return against Harvard, was the Patriot League player of the year as a freshman and sophomore...
Using special equipment flown in from the U.S., the doctors injected GM-CSF into each patient's vena cava, the central vein that leads to the heart. Within 48 to 72 hours, the white blood cell count increased in five of the six patients, but Leide died before the treatment could be evaluated. Within a week four of the six patients had died, overwhelmed by pneumonia, blood poisoning and hemorrhaging. But the other two seem to be recovering. "I can't be certain that they would have died if they had not got the treatment," Gale says. "But they...
...powered miniature pump zippered into another vest pocket propels the solution through a tube implanted in Jason's skin midway between his rib cage and navel. The tube runs up his chest to the base of his neck, where it threads into a vein leading to the superior vena cava, the large vessel that finally returns blood from the head and neck to the heart...
Some medical experts wondered why the surgeons did not tie off the large vein known as the inferior vena cava. That step could block the passage of clots that might form later on higher in the left iliac vein or in Nixon's right leg or in tributary veins from the left leg. It is not known how extensively during surgery the doctors examined the inferior vena cava for possible clots...
...estate in Palm Springs early in September. At some point, Nixon's physicians say, a part of that clot, or possibly a new one, broke loose. The embolus was carried away in the bloodstream, like debris in a fast-flowing river, through the iliac vein and the inferior vena cava into the heart (see diagram...