There was one complication, and that was a tear in the superior vena cava.

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After she sewed that in place, and an X-ray showed its tip floating just where it was supposed to inside his vena cava at the entrance to his heart she put a third, slightly thicker line, for dialysis, through his right upper chest and into the subclavian vein, deep under the collarbone.

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