TY - JOUR
T1 - Successful multi-step catheter intervention for thrombotic inferior vena cava filter retrieval
AU - Hayashi, Hiroya
AU - Tsuji, Akihiro
AU - Asano, Ryotaro
AU - Konagai, Nao
AU - Ueda, Jin
AU - Fukui, Shigefumi
AU - Ogo, Takeshi
AU - Miyata, Shigeki
AU - Yasuda, Satoshi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - A 45-year-old man, who was implanted with an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter in his infrarenal IVC, had a complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) propagation from the IVC, beyond the IVC filter, to the right calf and left external iliac veins. The entire IVC filter was covered with a massive thrombus. We first decided to retrieve the IVC filter itself, which was suspected of causing metallic allergy. The thrombotic IVC filter was successfully retrieved using multi-step catheter intervention. To our knowledge, this is the first case report to describe successful multi-step catheter intervention for retrieval of an IVC filter covered with a massive thrombus. <Learning objectives: Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter thrombosis is one of the most serious IVC filter complications. It is difficult to retrieve the IVC filter covered with a massive thrombus. Multi-step catheter intervention technique may be useful to retrieve an IVC filter with thrombotic occlusion.>
AB - A 45-year-old man, who was implanted with an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter in his infrarenal IVC, had a complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) propagation from the IVC, beyond the IVC filter, to the right calf and left external iliac veins. The entire IVC filter was covered with a massive thrombus. We first decided to retrieve the IVC filter itself, which was suspected of causing metallic allergy. The thrombotic IVC filter was successfully retrieved using multi-step catheter intervention. To our knowledge, this is the first case report to describe successful multi-step catheter intervention for retrieval of an IVC filter covered with a massive thrombus. <Learning objectives: Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter thrombosis is one of the most serious IVC filter complications. It is difficult to retrieve the IVC filter covered with a massive thrombus. Multi-step catheter intervention technique may be useful to retrieve an IVC filter with thrombotic occlusion.>
KW - Inferior vena cava filter
KW - Inferior vena cava thrombosis
KW - Multi-step catheter intervention
KW - Thrombolysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jccase.2019.07.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jccase.2019.07.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85070261188
SN - 1878-5409
VL - 20
SP - 142
EP - 146
JO - Journal of Cardiology Cases
JF - Journal of Cardiology Cases
IS - 4
ER -