Percutaneous retrieval of a Greenfield filter after migration to the left pulmonary artery.
A Titanium Greenfield filter migrated to the left pulmonary artery during its deployment in a 67-year-old woman. The filter was successfully removed percutaneously without complications with use of an Amplatz Goose Neck snare and the 12-F sheath from the Greenfield filter kit.
Department of Interventional Radiology, Fairfield Medical Center, 401 North Ewing Street, Lancaster, Ohio 43110, USA. bkm@insight.rr.com
William B
WB
Mitchell
Joseph
J
Bonn
D000368:Aged; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D016306:Vena Cava Filters / Q000009:adverse effects