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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">111</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">Interventional Cardiology Forum</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">ICF</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2738-8972</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>BulSIC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/icf.1.e72386</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">72386</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Clinical Case</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>Coronary Interventions (Коронарни интервенции)</subject>
          <subject>Coronary Physiology (Коронарна физиология)</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Vena cava superior syndrome. Analisis of interventional and medical treatment options</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Tasheva</surname>
            <given-names>Iveta</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">iveta_t@yahoo.com</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Kafalieva</surname>
            <given-names>Sibel</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">sibellcan11@abv.bg</email>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">UMHAT Sofiamed, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>UMHAT Sofiamed</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding authors: Iveta Tasheva (<email xlink:type="simple">iveta_t@yahoo.com</email>), Sibel Kafalieva (<email xlink:type="simple">sibellcan11@abv.bg</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: Plamen Gatzov</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2021</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>29</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2021</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <fpage>19</fpage>
      <lpage>24</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/44805F14-889B-5317-8F08-57DC4919D947">44805F14-889B-5317-8F08-57DC4919D947</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5650575">5650575</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>30</day>
          <month>07</month>
          <year>2021</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>08</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2021</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Iveta Tasheva, Sibel Kafalieva</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>We present a clinical case of a 72-year-old man with a history of hypertension and SARS-CoV-2 infection, urgently hospitalized in the intensive care unit due to dyspnea at rest, blushes and swelling of the neck and face, headache, and syncope. Echocardiography was performed and revealed preserved ejection fraction of left and right ventricle (EF – 57%, TAPSE – 21 mm), without hemodynamically significant valve lesions and normal ECG. On the next day of hospitalization, we performed a computer tomography (CT) scan of the lungs and it showed a tumor in right lung, compressing vena cava superior. Venography was performed and revealed subtotal thrombosis of vena cava superior and stenting with Wallstent 16/60 mm was performed. Six hours after the intervention a clinical improvement was achieved – reducing of the swelling and relieving of the symptoms.</p>
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