Author: Delozier, Andrew; Ghaleb, Melhem; Andrade, Alonso
Title: Tine after tine: a varied approach to the removal of a long-standing IVC filter. Cord-id: n7qzwbqb Document date: 2017_1_1
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Snippet: Inferior vena cava filters are important tools used to help prevent life-threatening pulmonary embolisms in hospitalized patients with contraindications to pharmacological prophylactic anticoagulation. This is a case report of a patient who had an inferior vena cava filter placed after a traumatic subdural hematoma. He made a complete recovery but was lost to follow-up until he presented 1825 days after filter deployment with abdominal pain discovered to be from penetration of the filter tines o
Document: Inferior vena cava filters are important tools used to help prevent life-threatening pulmonary embolisms in hospitalized patients with contraindications to pharmacological prophylactic anticoagulation. This is a case report of a patient who had an inferior vena cava filter placed after a traumatic subdural hematoma. He made a complete recovery but was lost to follow-up until he presented 1825 days after filter deployment with abdominal pain discovered to be from penetration of the filter tines outside the lumen and into adjacent structures. We describe a case complicated by fibrotic tine entrapment with penetration to surrounding structures and discuss the technical approach used to free and eventually remove the long-standing filter.
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