Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prophylactic inferior vena cava filter placement declined in the United States from 2005 to 2014, but rates ...

(HealthDay)—The rates of inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placement increased from 2005 until 2010 and then decreased through 2014, according to a research letter published online Nov. 6 in JAMA ...

The treatment of choice for proximal venous thrombosis is anticoagulation. In situations where anticoagulation is absolutely contraindicated or when anticoagulation has failed in the face of an acute ...

WASHINGTON -- The same year that the FDA warned against long-term use of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, placement rates took a downward turn, researchers said. Separately, one center reported ...

Inferior vena cava filters have emerged as a popular tool to reduce risk for pulmonary embolism. Nevertheless, their use can be a polarizing issue among physicians. “Many physicians would say that ...

More than one-third of patients undergoing catheter-directed thrombolysis of deep vein thrombosis receive an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter, yet placement of the device is not associated with a ...

Effect of tolfenamic acid on ovarian cancer cell growth, targeting of specificity protein transcription factors, and expression of c-Met and survivin. Background: Venous thrombosis is a frequent ...

Placement of a prophylactic inferior vena cava (IVC) filter pares the rate of overall and fatal pulmonary embolism without exposing trauma patients to a higher risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters had mixed results against cancer-related venous thromboembolism (VTE) in studies presented here. In a population-based analysis of more than 90,000 ...

Analysis of cumulative probabilities shows that the efficacy of 5HT3 antagonist prophylaxis is not maintained. Of 182 patients, 103 were men and 79 were women. Median age was 59 years (range, 15 to 88 ...

Among the team's findings: An estimated 1,131,274 patients underwent IVC filter placement over the 10-year study period There was a 22.2% increase in the rate of IVC filter placement from 45.2/100,000 ...