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Successful percutaneous retrieval of an inferior vena cava filter migrating to the right ventricle in a bariatric patient
- Source :
- Cardiovascular and interventional radiology. 31
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- The use of an inferior vena cava filter has an important role in the management of patients who are at high risk for development of pulmonary embolism. Migration is a rare but known complication of inferior vena cava filter placement. We herein describe a case of a prophylactic retrievable vena cava filter migrating to the right ventricle in a bariatric patient. The filter was retrieved percutaneously by transjugular approach and the patient did well postoperatively. A review of the current literature is given.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Percutaneous
Vena Cava Filters
Vena cava
Heart Ventricles
Inferior vena cava filter
Contrast Media
Foreign-Body Migration
Gastrectomy
Medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
cardiovascular diseases
Bariatric patient
Device Removal
Vena cava filters
business.industry
Phlebography
medicine.disease
Surgery
Pulmonary embolism
Obesity, Morbid
medicine.anatomical_structure
Ventricle
cardiovascular system
Radiology
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Complication
Pulmonary Embolism
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1432086X
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cardiovascular and interventional radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....680ff777bd27eb19dc994a01188cc486