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Improving The Tracking And Removal Of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filters., Anthony D Goei, Shellie C Josephs, Thomas B Kinney, Charles E Ray, David Sacks
Improving The Tracking And Removal Of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filters., Anthony D Goei, Shellie C Josephs, Thomas B Kinney, Charles E Ray, David Sacks
Reading Hospital Interventional Radiology
Therapeutic and prophylactic inferior vena cava (IVC) filters should be placed based on currently accepted indications to prevent a fatal pulmonary embolism (PE). The protective effect of filters is offset by the potential for lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT), caval thrombosis, and possible otherwise unnecessary life-long anticoagulation (AC). The duration of treatment for most DVTs or PEs is 3 to 6 months of AC/filter. Filters should be retrieved when duration of treatment for a DVT/PE has been met, the risk of a PE is no longer high, and/or there is no longer a contraindication to AC. An effective system …