Wire in the Heart: Fracture and Fragment Embolization of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter into the Right Ventricle

We report a case of a 58-year-old female who was found to have a fractured limb of her IVC filter in her right ventricle during a cardiac catheterization. A 25 mm radioopaque thin linear structure was seen in the proximal portion of the right ventricle. It was fixed and did not migrate or change pos...

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Autores principales: Thakur, Kshitij, Dhawan, Naveen, Winchester, Chia, Singh, Amandeep, Bodukam, Vijay, Bahl, Jaya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25977824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/938184

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25977824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/938184

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