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- Title
Right ventricular migration of a recovery IVC filter's fractured wire with subsequent pericardial tamponade.
- Authors
Saeed, Imran; Garcia, Mark; McNicholas, Kathleen
- Abstract
A Recovery filter (C.R. Bard, Tempe, AZ, USA) is a device for pulmonary embolism prophylaxis. There have been few case reports involving the migration of this particular filter or of a broken wire migrating to the heart. We report a case of right ventricular migration of a fractured wire from this filter in a patient who subsequently developed pericardial tamponade and required open heart surgery to extract the fractured wire. We discuss the current US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved nonpermanent inferior vena cava filters and their reported complications. These complications can be life-threatening and may require immediate surgical intervention.
- Publication
Cardiovascular and interventional radiology, 2006, Vol 29, Issue 4, p685
- ISSN
0174-1551
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00270-005-0136-7