Current Data and Trends on Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement and Retrieval.- IVC Filter Placement: Accepted and Relative Indications.- Filter Placement: Anatomical Evaluation and Approach to Variant Anatomy.- IVC Filter Retrieval: Routine Approach.- Filter Strut Penetration: Does it Matter?.- Retrieval of Filters with Embedded Apices.- Filter Strut Incorporation: Tools for Success and Improved Procedural Safety.- Approaches to Fractured Filters.- Filter Migration and Misplacement.- Management of the Acute Thrombus-Bearing IVC Filter.- Permanent Inferior Vena Cava Filter Retrieval: Special Considerations.- Management of Filter-Related Chronic Iliocaval Occlusion.
Kush Desai, MD is Assistant Professor of Radiology, Surgery, and Medicine, Division of Interventional Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Osman Ahmed, MD is Assistant Professor in the Section of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology at University of Chicago Medicine.
Thuong Van Ha, MD is Professor in the Section of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology at University of Chicago Medicine.