ArticleJournal of vascular surgery. Venous and lymphatic disorders2016
Improving the retrieval rate of inferior vena cava filters with a multidisciplinary team approach.
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- Optimizing the management strategy for inferior vena cava filter.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Managing an effective system for retrieving IVC filters: outcomes of a prospective patient database, 2012-2023.CVIR endovascular · 2025Article
- Trends and Predictors of Vena Cava Filter Use (2004-2023): A Swiss Nationwide Epidemiological Study.TH open : companion journal to thrombosis and haemostasis · 2025Article
- A change in strategy for filter choice leads to improved filter retrieval rates.Heart and vessels · 2024Article
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- Safety and efficacy of inferior vena cava filter retrieval: a 5-year single center retrospective review from a tertiary care center.CVIR endovascular · 2022Article
- Inferior vena cava filter insertion and retrieval patterns in a tertiary referral centre in Ireland-a follow up study.Irish journal of medical science · 2022Article
- Vena Cava Filters: Toward Optimal Strategies for Filter Retrieval and Patients' Follow-Up.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
- The application of inferior vena cava filters in orthopaedics and current research advances.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- Structured team-oriented program to follow patients after vena cava filter placement: a step forward in improving quality for filter retrieval.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Systems-based hematology: highlighting successes and next steps.Blood advances · 2020Review
- Effect of a dedicated inferior vena cava filter retrieval program on retrieval rates and number of patients lost to follow-up.Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2020Article
- Phlegmasia cerulea dolens: a rare cause of shock.Respirology case reports · 2019Article
- Persistently low inferior vena cava filter retrieval rates in a population-based cohort.Journal of vascular surgery. Venous and lymphatic disorders · 2019Article
- Practice Patterns of Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement and Factors That Predict Retrieval Rates: A Single-Center Institution and Review of the Literature.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2018Article
- An Informatics Approach to Facilitate Clinical Management of Patients With Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filters.AJR. American journal of roentgenology · 2018Observational
- Non-retrieval of inferior vena cava filters as a patient safety concern: evaluation of a new process improvement project to increase retrieval rates in a vascular and interventional radiology clinic.Patient safety in surgery · 2018Article
- Implementation of an institutional protocol to improve inferior vena cava utilization and outcomes.Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis · 2017Article
- The role of an IVC filter retrieval clinic-A single center retrospective analysis.The Indian journal of radiology & imagingArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThe option to retrieve inferior vena cava (IVC) filters has resulted in an increase in the utilization of these devices as stopgap measures in patients with relative contraindications to anticoagulation. These retrievable IVC filters, however, are often not retrieved and become permanent. Recent data from our institution confirmed a historically low retrieval rate. Therefore, we hypothesized that the implementation of a new IVC filter retrieval protocol would increase the retrieval rate of appropriate IVC filters at our institution.
methodsAll consecutive patients who underwent an IVC filter placement at our institution between September 2003 and July 2012 were retrospectively reviewed. In August 2012, a multidisciplinary task force was established, and a new IVC filter retrieval protocol was implemented. Prospective data were collected using a centralized interdepartmental IVC filter registry for all consecutive patients who underwent an IVC filter placement between August 2012 and September 2014. Patients were chronologically categorized into preimplementation (PRE) and postimplementation (POST) groups. Comparisons of outcome measures, including the retrieval rate of IVC filters along with rates of retrieval attempt and technical failure, were made between the two groups.
resultsIn the PRE and POST groups, a total of 720 and 74 retrievable IVC filters were implanted, respectively. In the POST group, 40 of 74 filters (54%) were successfully retrieved compared with 82 of 720 filters (11%) in the PRE group (P < .001). Furthermore, a greater number of IVC filter retrievals were attempted in the POST group than in the PRE group (66% vs 14%; P < .001). No significant difference was observed between the PRE and POST groups for technical failure (17% vs 18%; P = .9).
conclusionsThe retrieval rate of retrievable IVC filters at our institution was significantly increased with the implementation of a new IVC filter retrieval protocol with a multidisciplinary team approach. This improved retrieval rate is possible with minimal dedication of resources and can potentially lead to a decrease in IVC filter-related complications in the future.
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