Medical Studies Question IVC FIlters

On April 8, 2013, two studies and two editorials were published in JAMA Internal Medicine, raising serious questions about the use of vena cava filters.  Less than 10% of filters evaluated in one of the studies were successfully removed from patients and 8% of recipients of IVC filters suffered a pulmonary embolism despite the device’s presence.

FDA Issues Warnings Regarding Bard IVC Filters

WASHINGTON D.C. – On August 9, 2010, after receiving more than 900 reports of problems, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) warned doctors about the dangers of IVC filters such as the Bard Recovery and Bard G2.  Inferior vena cava filters (“IVC Filters”) are medical devices that are implanted inside a patients vena cava vein to