Technical error during deployment leads to vena cava filter migration and massive pulmonary embolism

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL.2, 2008, Pages

  Fotiadis, Nikolas I ^a   Sabharwal, Tarun ^a   Dourado, Renato ^a   Fikrat, Shabbo ^a   Adam, Andreas ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filter complication; Filter migration; Interventional radiology; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; ERROR; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VENA CAVA FILTER;

DEVICE REMOVAL; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA FILTERS;

EID: 48449084373     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-007-9159-6     Document Type: Article

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