Overview: Covers IVC filter placement and retrieval in a case-based format, highlighting the myriad tools and techniques to place, manage, and retrieve filters.Anchored in data from leading thought leaders in t.This book addresses placement and retrieval of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters. Until 2010, utilization of IVC filters had been increasing since their introduction in 1967. Studies in the early 2000’s, however, identified that prolonged caval interruption with IVC filters were fraught with complications including filter fracture, migration, and caval thrombosis. This subsequently led t
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