Fracture and embolization of an inferior vena cava filter strut leading to cardiac tamponade

Circulation

Volumn 119, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2535-2536

  Rogers, Nicholas A ^a   Nguyen, Lynn ^a   Minniefield, Nicole E ^a   Jessen, Michael E ^a   De Lemos, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VEIN EMBOLISM; VENA CAVA FILTER; EMBOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

2 PYRROLIDONE DERIVATIVE; EK 17;

CARDIAC TAMPONADE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PYRROLIDINONES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA FILTERS;

EID: 66549130695     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.817247     Document Type: Article

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