Doctors May Consider Vitamin K Anti-Coagulant Therapy Before Recommending IVC Filters

More and more heart doctors may hesitate to implant IVC filters when they become aware of the dangers and complications.

Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - IVC filters have become a popular alternative to oral anticoagulants (blood thinners) for patients that are not doing well on the latter. Doctors implanting IVC filters may be unaware of the life-threatening complications the device carries. Few if any surgeons are competent to the degree that they will even attempt to remove the device after it has reached its useful life in a month or two. There is documentation that shows the IVC filter is fragile and can break into pieces if too much physical force is exerted to remove them. Untrained doctors may yank and tug at the device to try and free it from the scar tissue that has developed to encapsulate it. The pieces are then irretrievable and free to travel within the blood and lacerate the artery or vein tissue they come into contact with. Fragments of a fractured Bard IVC filter can embed themselves in the heart or lungs and cause instant death. The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors and the public in 2010, years after the first reports of IVC device failure were first made, that the device could cause life-threatening complications. "The FDA has received reports of adverse events and product problems associated with IVC filters. Types of reports include device migration, filter fracture, embolization (movement of the entire filter or fracture fragments to the heart or lungs), perforation of the IVC, and difficulty removing the device," the FDA stated. Bard IVC filter lawyers are interviewing patients that have suffered IVC filter complications and can help file a claim for lump-sum monetary compensation.

The number of patients with venous thrombosis is rapidly increasing in countries that promote an unhealthy diet based on meat and processed fatty foods. Some medications are toxic and may irritate the inner walls of the arteries. That makes them more apt to attract fatty blood molecules that can grow large and break free eventually and form deadly blockages leading to heart attack, stroke, or pulmonary embolism. Given the current state of affairs surrounding the dangers of IVC filters, more doctors are shunning the blood clot-trapping filters and recommending patients start oral-anticoagulant therapy instead. "Oral anticoagulants, also called vitamin K antagonists (VKAs), are used to prevent the occurrence or increase of unwanted blood clots," as per diagnostics.roche.com. Bard IVC filters complications include becoming easily absorbed by scar tissue within the artery making their removal difficult and impossible for most surgeons. If an IVC filter is not removed it will most certainly attract more blood clots than the artery can handle and become the source of creating new blood clots. Experts in the medical field are publishing articles warning their colleagues of these and other life-threatening complications that come with using an IVC filter. Doc Wire News writes, "there have been several landmark clinical trials assessing acute treatment strategies including thrombolysis and inferior vena cava (IVC) filter. The current VTE guidelines do not recommend the routine use of thrombolysis or IVC filters based on recent evidence."

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