What is it about?
Vena cava filters are used to prevent the passage of emboli from the lower limbs to the pulmonary arteries and normally are placed immediately below the renal veins. In some cases however there are unusual technical difficulties that must be overcome to properly treat some patients.
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Vena cava filters are used to prevent the passage of emboli from the lower limbs to the pulmonary arteries and normally are placed immediately below the renal veins. In some cases however there are unusual technical difficulties that must be overcome to properly treat some patients. We report a case of a patient in whose common iliac veins vena cava filters were deployed, due to the lower implantation of renal veins and a short inferior vena cava. Keywords: Venous thrombosis; vena cava inferior; vena cava filters.
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We report a case of a patient in whose common iliac veins vena cava filters were deployed, due to the lower implantation of renal veins and a short inferior vena cava.
Professor Paulo Eduardo Ocke Reis
Universidade Federal Fluminense
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This page is a summary of: Implante intencional de filtros de veia cava em ambas as veias ilíacas comuns: relato de caso e revisão da literatura, Jornal Vascular Brasileiro, December 2010, FapUNIFESP (SciELO),
DOI: 10.1590/s1677-54492010000400013.
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