We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Clinical Presentation of Thrombosed Greenfield Filters.
- Authors
Kolachalam, Ramachandra B.; Julian, Thomas B.
- Abstract
The tour de force of this paper lies in the review of clinical presentation of occluded Greenfield filters in a group of patients contraindicated for postoperative anticoagulation. Nine of 59 patients (15.3%) had occluded filters. Eight of these 9 patients (88.8%) had primary brain tumors. This study, for the first time, to the authors' knowledge, reports a high incidence of cavai thrombosis in brain tumor patients (8/31:25.8%) and of an association between cavai thrombosis and recurrent deep vein thrombosis. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) was seen in 88.8% of patients with cavai thrombosis in this service. It is the authors' contention that recurrent DVT, at least in brain tumor patients, should alert the physician to evaluate cavai patency. Cavai thrombosis was noticed even sixty weeks after the placement of Greenfield filter. The authors conclude, therefore, that brain tumor patients had a high incidence of occluded filters; lower extremity morbidity provided a clue to such an event, and such a scenario should raise concerns regarding cavai patency, even in long-term follow-up.
- Subjects
BRAIN tumors; TUMORS; THROMBOSIS; BLOOD coagulation
- Publication
Vascular Surgery, 1990, Vol 24, Issue 9, p666
- ISSN
0042-2835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/153857449002400907