The Penn Medicine team studied 114 adult patients, 77 women and 37 men, who visited the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for removal of a tip - embedded retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filter between January 2005 and April 2014. (sciencedaily.com)
When retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filters were approved for use in the United States in 2003 to prevent pulmonary embolism among patients unable to receive the standard blood thinner treatment, many experts anticipated most of them would be removed when no longer needed and IVC filter complications would decrease. (sciencedaily.com)
«Endobronchial forceps effective in retrieval of tip - embedded inferior vena cava (IVC) filters.» (sciencedaily.com)