[Implantation of vena cava filters in acute pulmonary embolism].
The long-term results of 222 patients (pts) with transvenously implanted vena cava filters are critically reviewed. A total of 98 pts were given a Mobin-Uddin filter, 102 pts a Günther filter, and 16 pts a LGM filter. Among the serious complications observed during long-term follow-up were vena cava occlusions and increasing symptoms ranging from congestion of the deep leg veins, perforations into ureters, fractures and embolizations of the filters in up to 40% of the patients, if Günther filters were implanted.
Romaniuk
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P
Universitätsklinikum Charité Berlin, Institut für kardiovaskuläre Diagnostik.
Thieme
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T
Miersch
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G
Stobbe
C
C
Stösslein
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F
D004867:Equipment Design; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D010690:Phlebography; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012008:Recurrence; D016306:Vena Cava Filters
Zur Implantation von Vena-cava-Filtern bei akuten Lungenembolien.