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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: ivc filter placement?
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A 41-year old female asked:
I have an IVC filter that is fractured and perforated. I am getting a hysterectomy. Could the placement of the gas during surgery cause pressure and cause possible movement of the filter?
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A 30-year old female asked:
How often are there complications when removing a ivc filter?
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A 34-year old female asked:
I have a IVC filter. Can the IVC filter rubb one bone in the lower back?
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A 45-year old asked:
Can ivc filter cause your legs to swell?
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A member asked:
I had a retrievable ivc filter left in too long and it embedded. Have had it for >8 years, on 5mg aspirin daily. Any long term risks / complications?
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A 44-year old female asked:
How long does it take to clog an ivc filter so that both legs swell?
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A member asked:
Is the cook tulip ivc filter metalic. Is is save for mri. Also, is it save to use a tens unit with one in place?
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A 63-year old male asked:
Does an IVC filter only catch a blood clot that would travel to the lungs?
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A 72-year old female asked:
If you are diagnosed with DVT below your knees can you still get IVC filter?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Earlier this month i had emergency surgery to remove ivc filter that had migrated. Is it normal for this to effect my menstrual cycle?
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A 63-year old male asked:
The installation of an IVC filter is all that is needed to avoid most heart attacks, strokes and PE's if there is a history of familial heart disease?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Is it safe to get an MRI of ankle when I have a ivc filter in?
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A 32-year old asked:
What to do if I had a ivc green field filter put in for blood clot in 1995. I need to have a MRI of my shoulder and neck, is this safe?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Water retention in ankles and feet after ivc filter, could they be connected?
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A 58-year old male asked:
Failed tykocin therapy for afib ablation not an option due ivc filter amiodarone only other drug option offered side effect? Any other options
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A 44-year old female asked:
I have blood clotting prothrobin gene mutation 20210a on walfarin and have birds nest ivc filter , filter has moved and 2wires broken is this danger?
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A 57-year old female asked:
Filter placement for clots:post op after a heart and liver transplant 6yrs ago. A piece of filter has traveled to lung. Dr wants to remove filter.Why?
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A 52-year old male asked:
In a 52 yrs old 76 kg and 5'10" tall male IVC is not seen during ultra sound. Why does this happen?
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A 73-year old male asked:
Is having an ivc in-situ an example of an "invasive procedure"?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I have a chronically blocked ivc and my body created vercies to compansate. I have two hypotense areas in my liverduetothis. What's a hypotense area?
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A 42-year old female asked:
What is ivc dilated and non collapsing in eco testing?
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A 54-year old male asked:
Ivc. I have been told my double left sided ivc is inconsequential, with all my probs, is this another complication to the vascular system , or nothing
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A 49-year old male asked:
Treatment of thrombosis in ivc?
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A 52-year old female asked:
Recent ultrasound says ivc remains prominent in size sometimes with cardiac decompensation what does this mean?
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A 24-year old female asked:
How does l testicular v. Connecting to l renal v. At 90* (as opposed r- less than 90* connection to ivc) lead to l varicocele? (varicocele-wikipedia)
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A 32-year old female asked:
What does juxtahepatic ivc is patent?
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A 33-year old asked:
Is missing ivc (inferior vana cava) is a rear case in medical history?
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A 32-year old female asked:
Is the juxtahepatic ivc is patent a good or bad thing, please explain. I know it means the Vena Cava is open, but not sure if this is normal or not?
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A 34-year old female asked:
2D echocardio, 110lb 27y F. Two measurements outside normal ranges. LVdia 3.6cm and LA 1.8cm. Also, IVC is only 1.2cm. Anything to be concerned about?
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