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Cook Medical and plaintiffs who have filed an IVC filter lawsuit against the company failed to reach settlement over the IVC filter personal injury, wrongful death and product liability claims, at a meeting held earlier this week. Cook Medical and plaintiffs...

Argon Medical Devices, Inc. announced today that the company has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration to begin marketing the OptionELITE retrievable inferior vena cava filter with a new over-the-wire delivery technique.

Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter use is widespread in patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and temporary contraindication to anticoagulation, though timely removal is often not performed. We report the case of an expectoration of an IVC filter strut...

IVC Filter Lawsuits Filed Against C.R. Bard Thousands of lawsuits have been filed over inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, devices that are placed in a major vein in order to stop blood clots from reaching the heart and lungs, where they can be life-threatening...

In the interest of keeping blood clots from causing debilitating and sometimes lethal damage to patients, an enterprising vascular surgeon named Dr. Kazi Mobin-Uddin invented the inferior vena cava (IVC) filter in 1969. Surgically implanted, the small...