Transcatheter interventions across an inferior vena cava filter

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2003 Jul;59(3):333-7. doi: 10.1002/ccd.10549.

Abstract

Patients who suffer from an embolic event often undergo placement of an inferior vena caval filter. Few data are available regarding treatment of this patient population with concurrent right-to-left shunting across an atrial communication. We report four cases of transcatheter device closure of an atrial communication across an inferior vena cava filter.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Angiography / methods
  • Balloon Occlusion / methods*
  • Cardiac Catheterization / methods*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / therapy*
  • Hemodynamics / physiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prosthesis Design
  • Pulmonary Embolism / therapy
  • Pulmonary Gas Exchange
  • Risk Assessment
  • Sampling Studies
  • Stroke / therapy
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vena Cava Filters*
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / diagnostic imaging*