A system that automatically sends emails to physicians reminding them to consider removing a patient’s inferior vena cava (IVC) filter after it’s served its purpose may help cut down on complications, ...

The Food and Drug Administration has received 921 reports about problems with medical filters that are implanted in people at risk for blood clots--at a time when the use of the filters is increasing.

An Indianapolis jury awarded $3 million in the third bellwether case of allegedly defective intravenous blood filters manufactured by Cook Medical Inc.—one of two primary makers of the devices ...

August 11, 2010 (Rockville, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania) — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received more than 900 reports of adverse events with inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, ...

Dear Dr. Roach: In November 1997, while traveling, I had a pulmonary embolism. I was treated with urokinase to the lungs and a vena cava filter was placed. In November 2006, I had a CT scan of my ...

FAIRFAX, Va.—Researchers have published the largest single patient population study to date on a method for following patients with retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filters—devices used to keep ...

The Food & Drug Administration is recommending that physicians consider removing retrievable inferior vena cava filters after logging 921 reports of “adverse events” related to the devices. The ...

Researchers have published the largest single patient population study to date on a method for following patients with retrievable inferior vena cava filters -- devices used to keep blood clots from ...

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 ...