The accidental expansion of an inferior vena cava filter which migrated to the pulmonary artery

Bülent Sarıtaş; Ali Harman; Tankut Akay; Oktay Korun; Atilla Sezgin

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.115

Bülent Sarıtaş¹, Ali Harman², Tankut Akay¹, Oktay Korun¹, Atilla Sezgin¹

¹Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey
²Departments of Invasive Radiology, Medical Faculty of Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.115

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Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) may result in fatal pulmonary thromboembolism. Inferior vena cava filters are used to prevent thromboembolic events in patients who are not eligible for anticoagulant therapy. However, the major disadvantage of these filters is they migrate to the pulmonary artery. In this article, we report the case of a 68-year-old female patient for whom the inferior vena cava filter accidentally expanded after it migrated to the pulmonary artery.

Keywords : Deep venous thrombosis; embolization; migration; vena cava inferior filter

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