THE MIGRATION OF VENA CAVA FILTER TO THE RIGHT ATRIUM - A CLINICAL CASE
Abstract
The implantation of a removable inferior vena cava (IVC) filter serves as an effective "bridge" to anticoagulant therapy. However, different types of recoverable inferior vena cava filter failures have been reported. Most of these failures were associated with endovascular treatment, device problems, filter hook intimal migration, filter disintegration, filter-related thrombosis, and right atrial / ventricular migration.
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