Transcatheter interventions across an inferior vena cava filter.
Patients who suffer from an embolic event often undergo placement of an inferior vena caval filter. Few data are available regarding treatment of this patient population with concurrent right-to-left shunting across an atrial communication. We report four cases of transcatheter device closure of an atrial communication across an inferior vena cava filter.
Rhodes
John F
JF
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. rhode028@mc.duke.edu
Miller
Stephen G
SG
Lane
Geoffrey K
GK
Latson
Larry A
LA
D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D021721:Balloon Occlusion / Q000379:methods*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000628:therapy; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012494:Sampling Studies; D020521:Stroke / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016306:Vena Cava Filters; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*