Key result
A transthoracic echocardiogram incidentally revealed fractured inferior vena cava filter struts embedded in the right atrium and right ventricle of an asymptomatic 30-year-old male.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the importance of recognizing rare complications such as fractured and migrated inferior vena cava filter struts on echocardiography.
Clinicians should consider IVC filter complications on echocardiography; case reports leave incidence and management open.
Inferior vena cava filters have gained increasing popularity in recent decades and knowledge on rare complications becomes vital to practicing physicians. A 30-year-old African American male with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, end-stage renal disease, history of deep venous thrombosis and placement of venacaval filter who was seen in the cardiology clinic for cardiac risks stratification prior to renal transplant. Patient denied any cardiac symptoms. A transthoracic echocardiogram was performed and showed two linear echoes bright densities in the right atrium and right ventricle embedded which was later found to be fractured filter struts by computed tomography. We discuss the various outcomes associated with non-retrieval of retrievable inferior vena cava filters.
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Sivasambu et al. (2017) conducted a case report in Fractured inferior vena cava filter (n=1). Inferior vena cava filter was evaluated on Incidental finding of fractured filter struts. A transthoracic echocardiogram incidentally revealed fractured inferior vena cava filter struts embedded in the right atrium and right ventricle of an asymptomatic 30-year-old male.
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