Percutaneous Extraction of an Embolized IVC Filter Strut Embedded in the Right Ventricle

Dominik Beer, DO; Kishore Harjai, MD; Terry D. Bauch, MD; Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Dec 2020)

Percutaneous Extraction of an Embolized IVC Filter Strut Embedded in the Right Ventricle

Dominik Beer, DO,
Kishore Harjai, MD,
Terry D. Bauch, MD,
Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD

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Dominik Beer, DO: Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Geisinger Heart Institute, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Kishore Harjai, MD: Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Geisinger Heart Institute, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Terry D. Bauch, MD: Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Geisinger Heart Institute, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD: Address for correspondence: Dr. Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Geisinger Heart Institute, MC 36-10, 1000 East Mountain Boulevard, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18711, USA.; Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Geisinger Heart Institute, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 15
pp. 2318 – 2322

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The incidence of IVC filter fracture is high with risk for embolization and may require open surgery. We present a minimally invasive approach of complex transcatheter extraction of an embolized and embedded IVC filter strut from the right ventricle. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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