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Sivasambu B, Kabirdas D, Movahed A. Incidental echocardiographic finding: Fractured inferior vena cava filter. World J Clin Cases. 2017;5(4):148-152doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v5.i4.148.
Sivasambu, B., Kabirdas, D., & Movahed, A. (2017). Incidental echocardiographic finding: Fractured inferior vena cava filter. World journal of clinical cases, 5(4), 148-152. https://doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v5.i4.148
Sivasambu, Bhradeev, et al. "Incidental echocardiographic finding: Fractured inferior vena cava filter." World journal of clinical cases vol. 5,4 (2017): 148-152. doi: https://doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v5.i4.148
Sivasambu B, Kabirdas D, Movahed A. Incidental echocardiographic finding: Fractured inferior vena cava filter. World J Clin Cases. 2017 Apr 16;5(4):148-152. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v5.i4.148. PMID: 28470007; PMCID: PMC5395983.
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World J Clin Cases. 2017 Apr 16;5(4):148-152. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v5.i4.148.

Incidental echocardiographic finding: Fractured inferior vena cava filter.

World journal of clinical cases

Bhradeev Sivasambu, Deepa Kabirdas, Assad Movahed

Affiliations

  1. Bhradeev Sivasambu, Vidant Medical Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, United States.

PMID: 28470007 PMCID: PMC5395983 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v5.i4.148

Abstract

Inferior vena cava filters have gained increasing popularity in recent decades and knowledge on rare complications becomes vital to practicing physicians. A 30-year-old African American male with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, end-stage renal disease, history of deep venous thrombosis and placement of venacaval filter who was seen in the cardiology clinic for cardiac risks stratification prior to renal transplant. Patient denied any cardiac symptoms. A transthoracic echocardiogram was performed and showed two linear echoes bright densities in the right atrium and right ventricle embedded which was later found to be fractured filter struts by computed tomography. We discuss the various outcomes associated with non-retrieval of retrievable inferior vena cava filters.

Keywords: Cardiac foreign body; Fractured inferior vena cava filter; Incidental echocardiographic finding; Inferior vena cava filter; Metal in heart

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict-of-interest statement: None of the authors has any conflicts of interest to declare.

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