TY - JOUR
T1 - Right Ventricle Embolization of IVC Filter Fragments
T2 - An Incidental Finding
AU - Miyara, Santiago J.
AU - Guevara, Sara
AU - Shore-Lesserson, Linda
AU - Shoaib, Muhammad
AU - Kirsch, Claudia
AU - Metz, Christine N.
AU - Nair, Vinay
AU - Lau, Lawrence
AU - Choudhary, Rishabh C.
AU - McCann-Molmenti, Alexia
AU - Baez, Anthony M.
AU - Hayashida, Kei
AU - Takegawa, Ryosuke
AU - Shinozaki, Koichiro
AU - Aoki, Tomoaki
AU - Nishikimi, Mitsuaki
AU - Cho, Young Min
AU - Morell, Alexis
AU - Zafeiropoulos, Stefanos
AU - Zanos, Stavros
AU - Watt, Stacey
AU - Montorfano, Lisandro
AU - Bartoc, Cristian D.
AU - Lumermann, Claudio M.
AU - Aronsohn, Judith
AU - Becker, Lance B.
AU - Molmenti, Ernesto P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2025/5/12
Y1 - 2025/5/12
N2 - This case report describes a 52-year-old male patient, with the incidental finding of inferior vena cava filter (IVCF) fragments impacted into the right ventricle, secondary to IVCF fragmentation and subsequent embolization. While IVCFs are prescribed to prevent pulmonary embolizations when anticoagulation is either contraindicated, or has failed, IVCF embolizations to the heart represent an extremely rare, but potentially life-threatening complication. Of note, at the time of writing, the utility and effectiveness of IVCF are not fully established. Intracardiac embolizations of IVCF typically present with complications such as hypotension, cardiac tamponade, arrhythmias, ventricle perforation, bleeding, cardiac arrest, and death. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of an asymptomatic kidney transplant recipient found to have right ventricle embolizations of IVCF fragments through routine assessment. Additionally, this is also the first report of an asymptomatic patient who presented IVCF fragments embolized to the right ventricle and left gonadal vein in the same clinical setting.
AB - This case report describes a 52-year-old male patient, with the incidental finding of inferior vena cava filter (IVCF) fragments impacted into the right ventricle, secondary to IVCF fragmentation and subsequent embolization. While IVCFs are prescribed to prevent pulmonary embolizations when anticoagulation is either contraindicated, or has failed, IVCF embolizations to the heart represent an extremely rare, but potentially life-threatening complication. Of note, at the time of writing, the utility and effectiveness of IVCF are not fully established. Intracardiac embolizations of IVCF typically present with complications such as hypotension, cardiac tamponade, arrhythmias, ventricle perforation, bleeding, cardiac arrest, and death. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of an asymptomatic kidney transplant recipient found to have right ventricle embolizations of IVCF fragments through routine assessment. Additionally, this is also the first report of an asymptomatic patient who presented IVCF fragments embolized to the right ventricle and left gonadal vein in the same clinical setting.
KW - DVT
KW - IVCF migration
KW - IVCFs
KW - incidental finding
KW - intracardiac embolization
KW - pulmonary embolism
KW - thromboembolic disease
KW - thrombosis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85112050164
U2 - 10.1055/s-0041-1730451
DO - 10.1055/s-0041-1730451
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85112050164
SN - 1061-1711
VL - 34
SP - 100
EP - 104
JO - International Journal of Angiology
JF - International Journal of Angiology
IS - 2
ER -