Tag: IVC filters
Venous VQI celebrates decade milestone
At the recent VEITHsymposium (19–23 November, New York, USA), Marc Passman (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA) reflected on the achievements of the...
Kush Desai
“One of the great and simultaneously worrisome things about venous disease is that we’re still in the first generation of our understanding of pathophysiology...
US study highlights racial and ethnic disparities in the placement of...
A nationwide US study, recently published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders (JVS-VL), showed that Black patients had the highest...
In the making: Data-driven venous care
The quest for more data—specifically multicenter, independently adjudicated and, where possible, randomized—in the field of venous disease continues, with various trials currently underway set...
Approaching combined disease: Treat superficial, deep or both?
Mona Gupta (Chicago, USA) writes about the importance of acknowledging the “complex relationship” between the deep and superficial venous systems.
The complex relationship between the...
Study finds no correlation between IVC filter placement position and device...
Researchers report that inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placement position relative to the level of the most inferior renal vein was not associated with...
FDA clears CavaClear IVC filter removal laser sheath
Royal Philips has announced US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) de novo clearance for the Philips inferior vena cava (IVC) filter removal laser sheath—CavaClear—to...
Meta-analysis: IVC filters should be considered for certain patients at high...
In a recent meta-analysis, Yang Liu, Huan Lu (Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China), and colleagues found insufficient evidence to prove that inferior vena cava...
Society of Interventional Radiology publishes IVC filter guidelines
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) recently published new clinical practice guidelines that provide evidence-based recommendations on the use of inferior vena cava (IVC)...
Reviewing evidence for and against IVC filters in 2020
Following the publication of “Another nail in the coffin of vena cava filters” in the British Journal of Surgery, which considered potential problems with...
IVC filter moratorium “not in the best interests of our patients”
Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters have been a highly controversial topic in the field of venous medicine due to the high rates of complications associated with...
Cook Medical’s inferior vena cava filters fare better than ALN’s in...
Gerard Goh, Radiology, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, reported results from a comparative study of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters at CIRSE 2017 that...