To be sure IVC filter placement is the right choice and safe for you, you’ll see your doctor for a consultation and exam. They’ll test your blood to check how it forms clots.

Prophylactic inferior vena cava filter placement declined in the United States from 2005 to 2014, but rates varied by geography, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine ...

IVC filters: Largest single patient population study to date on placement success, patient follow-up Date: November 28, 2011 Source: Society of Interventional Radiology ...

Sometimes IVC filter placement is used for prophylaxis instead of anticoagulation or mechanical methods (e.g. sequential compression devices), in patients with major trauma and in those having ...

(HealthDay)—The rates of inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placement increased from 2005 until 2010 and then decreased through 2014, according to a research letter published online Nov. 6 in JAMA ...

What is the best course of treatment for a patient with recent PE and gastrointestinal bleeding (resulting from anticoagulation) who has a recurrent PE despite recent IVC filter placement?

(HealthDay)—Early prophylactic placement of a vena cava filter compared with no placement of a filter after major trauma does not result in a reduced incidence of symptomatic pulmonary embolism ...

Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placement and retrieval procedures trends over two decades. From previous large growth in Medicare beneficiaries, it has markedly declined over the last decade, new ...

Inferior vena cava filter placement is done to prevent or treat pulmonary emboli or deep venous thrombosis. "The majority of institutions use a dual venous puncture technique, while we use a ...

IVC filter placement rates dramatically increased from 1994 to 2008 (from 65.0 to 202.1) and then decreased to 128.9 by 2015. This decrease was observed across all specialty groups and sites of ...