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Experience with the Hunter-Sessions inferior vena cava balloon occluder
Archives of Surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
|June 1, 1979
Abstract:
During a two-year period, 12 patients with indication for inferior vena cava interruption underwent vena cava occlusion with the transvenous Hunter-Sessions balloon. The device permitted simultaneous anticoagulation (when not contraindicated), was tolerated by sick patients, did not cause mortality or significant morbidity, and prevented pulmonary emboli.

