Safety and Outcomes of Permanent and Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filters in the Oncology Population.
Saba S ShaikhSuneel D KamathDebashis GhoshRobert J LewandowskiBrandon J McMahonPublished in: International journal of vascular medicine (2020)
The role for IVC filters in cancer patients remains unclear as recurrent VTE is common and time from filter placement to death is short. Filter placement is costly and has a clinically significant complication rate, especially for retrievable filters. More data from prospective, randomized trials are needed to determine the utility of IVC filters in cancer patients.