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Percutaneous placement of inferior vena cava filters.

Pulmonary embolism is a serious and difficult problem. Many approaches for the prevention of recurrent pulmonary embolism have been tried. Percutaneous placement of inferior vena cava filters is an easy, safe, available and well established procedure for the prevention of pulmonary embolism. The authors review the indications for use of IVC filters, and they review the main filters available in terms of ease of...