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Transvenous retrieval of a Greenfield filter lodged in the tricuspid valve
1Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642-8648, USA.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|July 24, 1998
Abstract:
A 77-year-old man had an inferior vena cava Greenfield filter placed for bilateral deep venous thrombosis acquired during a complicated hospitalization for a hip fracture. The filter migrated and lodged at the level of the tricuspid valve. We describe a transvenous retrieval approach which is safer and performed under more controlled technique than previously reported.