title: Transcatheter interventions across an inferior vena cava filter.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. rhode028@mc.duke.edu
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Rhodes
authors.forename: Stephen G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Geoffrey K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Lane
authors.forename: Larry A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Latson
mesh_terms: 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*