Use of a guide wire snare for placement of vena cava filters.
A guide wire snare was used to facilitate passage of a Mobin-Uddin vena cava filter through a tortuous left innominate vein, and a Kimray-Greenfield vena cave filter from the suprarenal into the infrarenal position of the inferior vena cava.
D000368:Aged; D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D014684:Venae Cavae