Monday 18 August 2014

Vena Cava Filter Placement: Before & After Vena cava filter placement

This is a device which is inserted into a major vein which will prevent a blood clot from the lungs. This is the purpose of clotting the blood which passes to the lungs.

The thrombus clot which will travel to the lungs is called as pulmonary embolism, also the thrombus in the venous system in which it is deep as it is known to the circulation part which brings back the blood.


This will represent a disorder of the normal clotting of blood. The vena cava filter is been prescribed to patients who cannot respond to the medications which helps in dissolving the clot. 






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