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(Chest. 1973;63:1021-1023.)
© 1973 American College of Chest Physicians

Recurrent Pulmonary Embolus after Insertion of Intracaval Prosthesis

Robert J. DiBenedetto M.D.1 and William A. Miller M.D.1

1 Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Memorial Medical Center, Savannah, Georgia

A patient is described with recurrent pulmonary embolus following combined therapy of placement of a caval umbrella device for caval interruption and anticoagulation. The source of this embolus was felt to be from a thrombus located on the proximal portion of the umbrella. This is the first reported instance of this complication.






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