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Forgotten IVC Filters Aren’t SAFE

CardiacWire

Out of SAFE-IVC’s roughly 270k Medicare beneficiaries, only 15% had their IVC filters retrieved within 1.2 Patients who didn’t have their IVC filters removed had significant rates of filter-related complications (1.4%), caval thrombosis (2.2%), DVT hospital visits (9.2%), and new deep vein thrombosis (21.2%). years of insertion.