IN mammals lymph vessels draining the abdominal viscera and lower half of the body converge just below the diaphragm to form the thoracic duct, a single major channel which ascends through the chest ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Device-based thoracic duct decompression reduced congestion safely in patients with acute decompensated heart ...

Chyle leak or discharge can occur as a result of thoracic duct injury (injury to the structure that returns lymph and chyle from the lower half of the body). Injury can happen during surgery, from ...

Edema develops when lymph does not return to the venous circulation at a rate equal to the rate of capillary filtration. Fetal sheep develop edema as well as an increased central venous pressure while ...

THIS paper was written to present a case of extensive chylothorax and chyloperitoneum secondary to a thrombus occluding the thoracic duct. The patient had a long venous catheter introduced through a ...

Initial control studies were performed on 4 large adult mongrel dogs with the . . . From the Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine. Supported in part by a grant (HE-03043) ...

1.1 Evidence on the safety and efficacy of percutaneous thoracic duct embolisation for persistent chyle leak is limited in quantity and quality. Therefore, this procedure should only be used with ...