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[Proximal migration of a caval filter. Apropos of a case]
C Pouillaud1, J Ollitrault, F Paillard
1Service de Cardiologie A, CHRU, Rennes.
Annales De Cardiologie Et D'Angeiologie
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
We are reporting of proximal migration, intracardiac, of a percutaneous caval filter (LEM type), resulting in the death of the patient. It is a true, early (1st week) migration after accurate positioning, opposite L4, and not an incident of insertion.