Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recently published data suggesting that certain vena cava filters are associated with an increased incidence of ...

Recently published data suggesting that Bard’s Recovery and G2 vena cava filters are associated with an increased incidence of fracture and embolization has resulted in the FDA’s initiation of ...

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, ...

For thousands of Americans who were implanted with retrievable filters, many have already perforation of the IVC causing inferior vena cava stenosis... ...patients ...

BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BTG plc (LSE: BTG), the global healthcare company, highlighted the presentation of the two-year results for the SENTRY trial, at the Vascular Interventional Advances ...

Two specific types of vena cava filters, devices used to prevent blood clots from reaching the lungs, appear to have evidence of fracturing inside the body, with some fractured fragments traveling to ...

November 29, 2011 (Hamamatsu, Japan) — More concern about the safety of inferior vena cava filters (IVCFs), which are used to prevent pulmonary embolism in patients with deep vein thrombosis, has been ...

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 ...

Two medical device companies that were hit last month with a $33 million verdict over their allegedly defective blood filter devices are seeking to have the award overturned. Rex Medical and Argon ...

Two specific types of vena cava filters, devices used to prevent blood clots from reaching the lungs, appear to have evidence of fracturing inside the body, with some fractured fragments traveling to ...