title: Echocardiographic features of embolized inferior venacaval filter to the right ventricle--a case report.
abstract: The authors describe two-dimensional echocardiographic features of an inferior venacaval filter that migrated to the right ventricle. As far as they can determine, this is the first description of the echocardiographic aspects of this clinical entity.
authors.affiliation: Henry Ford Heart & Vascular Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alam
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Levine
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016306:Vena Cava Filters