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Superior vena cava syndrome

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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.

Symptoms

Dyspnea
Flushed edematousface
Central nervous systemsymptoms like headache, visual symptoms, altered mentation.

Causes

It can be caused by invasion or compression by a pathological process or by thrombosisin the vein itself.

Before antibiotics, untreated infections were the most common cause of SVCS. Now malignacies(in particular, lung cancer) cause most SVCS's.

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