At the emergency room where you work,a patient comes in needing rush surgery to repair a large leak of systemically circulated blood from the two vessels that return it to the heart,so you plan to operate on the

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The two vessels that return systemically circulated blood to the heart are the superior and inferior vena cava, and repairing a leak in both of them would best address the patient's condition. The aorta is not involved in returning blood to the heart, and operating on the pulmonary vein alone would not address the leak in the systemic circulation. Therefore, the best choice is to operate on the inferior vena cava and superior vena cava.

At the Emergency Room Where You Work,a Patient Comes in Needing