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
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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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author Thakur, Kshitij
Dhawan, Naveen
Winchester, Chia
Singh, Amandeep
Bodukam, Vijay
Bahl, Jaya
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description 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 position during investigations. On fluoroscopy, the IVC filter was observed in an appropriate location in the midabdomen. Yet, fractures of at least two of the metal filamentous legs of the IVC device were noticed. The patient was made aware of the many risks associated with filter removal. Due to the high risks of the procedure, she refused surgery and the filter fragment was not removed. We present this case to underscore the potential complications of IVC filters.
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spelling pubmed-44192192015-05-14 Wire in the Heart: Fracture and Fragment Embolization of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter into the Right Ventricle Thakur, Kshitij Dhawan, Naveen Winchester, Chia Singh, Amandeep Bodukam, Vijay Bahl, Jaya Case Rep Cardiol Case Report 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 position during investigations. On fluoroscopy, the IVC filter was observed in an appropriate location in the midabdomen. Yet, fractures of at least two of the metal filamentous legs of the IVC device were noticed. The patient was made aware of the many risks associated with filter removal. Due to the high risks of the procedure, she refused surgery and the filter fragment was not removed. We present this case to underscore the potential complications of IVC filters. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4419219/ /pubmed/25977824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/938184 Text en Copyright © 2015 Kshitij Thakur et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Thakur, Kshitij
Dhawan, Naveen
Winchester, Chia
Singh, Amandeep
Bodukam, Vijay
Bahl, Jaya
Wire in the Heart: Fracture and Fragment Embolization of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter into the Right Ventricle
title Wire in the Heart: Fracture and Fragment Embolization of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter into the Right Ventricle
title_full Wire in the Heart: Fracture and Fragment Embolization of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter into the Right Ventricle
title_fullStr Wire in the Heart: Fracture and Fragment Embolization of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter into the Right Ventricle
title_full_unstemmed Wire in the Heart: Fracture and Fragment Embolization of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter into the Right Ventricle
title_short Wire in the Heart: Fracture and Fragment Embolization of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter into the Right Ventricle
title_sort wire in the heart: fracture and fragment embolization of retrievable inferior vena cava filter into the right ventricle
topic Case Report
url 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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