November 29, 2011 (Hamamatsu, Japan) — More concern about the safety of inferior vena cava filters (IVCFs), which are used to prevent pulmonary embolism in patients with deep vein thrombosis ...

The complications included device migration (n=328), embolizations/device component detachment (n=146), IVC perforation (n=70) and filter fracture (n=56). Some of these adverse events were ...

Since 2005, 921 adverse events involving inferior vena cava filters have been reported to the FDA. Of these, 328 involved device migration, 146 involved embolization, 70 involved perforation of ...

On March 30, a federal jury in Phoenix awarded $3.6 million to Sherr-Una Booker, a Georgia woman who had open-heart surgery in 2014 to remove pieces of a Bard IVC filter that had fractured.

Retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filters are often left in place despite US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendations that they be removed when they are no longer needed. ... In addition, ...

Dr. Greg Vigna For thousands of Americans who were implanted with retrievable filters, many have already perforation of the IVC causing i Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

In the latest case, decided July 21, jurors found that Bard’s Recovery IVC filter caused serious complications when the device fractured after being implanted in plaintiff Debra Branch.

Recently published data suggesting that certain vena cava filters are associated with an increased incidence of fracture and embolization have resulted in the U.S. FDA’s initiation of ...

Filter fracture. IVC filters can fracture and break, sending pieces into the patient’s bloodstream, which can become lodged in organs or blood vessels. Organ or vein perforation.