The inferior vena cava (also known ... merging into the right renal vein first. This makes the IVC almost symmetrical. Other veins that enter the IVC include the hepatic veins, inferior phrenic ...

In many patients with pure hepatic vein thrombosis, the inferior vena cava appears narrowed at its intrahepatic portion, in relation with the enlargement of the caudate lobe. An increased pressure ...

Hepatic vein thrombosis associated with inferior vena cava also will not be considered because it is the subject of another review in this issue of Seminars in Liver Disease.