A new technique to avoid suprarenal placement of Kimray-Greenfield filters: technical note.
A new technique that avoids suprarenal Greenfield filter placement was used in 2 patients with an inferior caval thrombus extending up to the renal veins. The caval thrombus was pulled down with the aid of a modified Dormia wire basket inserted via a transfemoral approach, while the Kimray-Greenfield filter was introduced from a transjugular approach and placed in an infrarenal position.
Günther
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Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Aachen University of Technology, West Germany.
Bohndorf
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Schuster
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Steffens
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior