Retrievable inferior vena cava filters: Early clinical experience

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-169

  Rosenthal, D ^a,b   Wellons, E D ^a   Lai, K M ^a   Bikk, A ^a  

^a ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Filters; Vena cava, inferior

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAVOGRAPHY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPRESSION THERAPY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FOREIGN BODY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; VENA CAVA FILTER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILIAC VEIN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENA CAVA FILTERS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33744739541     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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