Follow-up of patients with inferior vena cava filters was performed every 3 months with clinical controls, plain radiographs and duplex sonography. Whereas the clinical results were excellent (no recurrence of pulmonary embolism), radiological controls showed broken anchoring legs in 14 cases and a broken filter basket in one patient. In two cases, the broken anchoring prongs had perforated the inferior vena cava wall. All patients with broken filters were clinically asymptomatic. CT showed no morphological changes in these cases. As experience proves, strict follow-up of caval filters for early detection of complications is mandatory even with well-established filter types
机构:
Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Burns Trauma Crit Care, Dept Surg, Dallas, TX 75390 USAUniv Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Burns Trauma Crit Care, Dept Surg, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
Phelan, Herb A.
Gonzalez, Richard P.
论文数: 0引用数: 0
h-index: 0
机构:
Univ S Alabama, Med Ctr, Dept Surg, Div Trauma Crit Care, Mobile, AL USAUniv Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Burns Trauma Crit Care, Dept Surg, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
Gonzalez, Richard P.
Scott, William C.
论文数: 0引用数: 0
h-index: 0
机构:
Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Dept Neurosurg, Dallas, TX 75390 USAUniv Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Burns Trauma Crit Care, Dept Surg, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
Scott, William C.
White, Cassandra Q.
论文数: 0引用数: 0
h-index: 0
机构:
Univ S Alabama, Med Ctr, Dept Surg, Div Trauma Crit Care, Mobile, AL USAUniv Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Burns Trauma Crit Care, Dept Surg, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
White, Cassandra Q.
McClure, Michael
论文数: 0引用数: 0
h-index: 0
机构:
Univ S Alabama, Med Ctr, Dept Surg, Div Trauma Crit Care, Mobile, AL USAUniv Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Burns Trauma Crit Care, Dept Surg, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
McClure, Michael
Minei, Joseph P.
论文数: 0引用数: 0
h-index: 0
机构:
Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Burns Trauma Crit Care, Dept Surg, Dallas, TX 75390 USAUniv Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Burns Trauma Crit Care, Dept Surg, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
Minei, Joseph P.
JOURNAL OF TRAUMA-INJURY INFECTION AND CRITICAL CARE,
2009,
67
(03):
: 485
-
489