To prevent bleeding from happening again, an interventional radiology technique called TIPS is the preferred procedure to decrease hepatic portal pressure and prevent further complications.
Yet he continued to pull it very slowly, especially as it passed the jugular-would it pull open the seal that had formed? No; the jugular had healed itself.
One common manifestation of this is jugular venous distention, where the jugular vein that brings blood back to the heart takes on more blood and becomes enlarged and distended in the neck.
The right lymphatic duct dumps lymph into the junction of the right jugular vein and the right subclavian vein, and the thoracic duct dumps lymph into the same junction on the left side of the body.
And hey, better to get slashed or stabbed into some thick skull bone rather than straight into a jugular in your neck- we're not saying it's ideal, but it's better than bleeding to death instantly.
The blood's still leaving the head from other pathways so flowing backwards through a jugular vein may not be dangerous, but he says it does show a change in how blood moves through the body while in space.