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iliocaval venous…

Leave Nothing Behind -IVC filter edition

17 Jul 202021 Jul 2020
Why There is a Literature on Filter Removal A long time ago, there was the IVC clip which survives today as a vestigial CPT code. Then in the 1980’s, the…
iliocaval venous…

Chronic IVC occlusion causing venous claudication and ulcers requires treatment

8 Apr 201710 Apr 2017
The patient is a gentleman from out of state who had called about problems he was having with walking and with leg ulcers that wouldn't heal. He is in his seventies…
ivc…

IVC Filter Migration Causing Acute Abdominal Pain

12 Sep 2015
The patient had a carotid dissection over five years prior to presentation and had a stroke and DVT. To protect her from pulmonary embolism, an IVC filter was placed, she…
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