Research Article
Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filters in Patients with Cancer: Complications and Retrieval Success Rate
Table 2
Outcomes by active cancer status.
| | Active cancer () | No cancer () | value |
| Death | 48 () | 42 () | <0.01 | Time to death, days (median, IQR) | 78 (24–308) | 42 (8–86) | <0.01 | Died with filter in place | 37 () | 35 () | 0.45 | Filter status changed to permanent | 13 () | 13 () | 0.59 | Filter retrieved | 33 () | 94 () | <0.01 | Filter retrieved or changed to permanent | 46 () | 107 () | 0.056 | Time to filter retrieval, days (median, IQR) | 33 (14–63) | 38 (18–93) | 0.16 | Time to retrieval or changed to permanent, days (median, IQR) | 45 (28–94) | 92 (39–226) | 0.03 | Complications | | | | Incident VTE | 14 () | 29 () | 0.75 | DVT | 11 () | 28 () | 0.35 | PE | 4 () | 1 (0.6) | 0.05 | patients with filter complications | 15 () | 30 () | 0.83 | Filter complications | | | | Migration | 1 () | 2 () | 1 | Embolization | 1 () | 1 (0.6) | 1 | Fracture | 0 | 2 () | 0.55 | Thrombosis | 9 () | 15 () | 0.83 | Tilting | 2 () | 12 () | 0.10 | Penetration | 4 () | 1 () | 0.05 | Other | 1 () | 3 () | 1 | Major filter complications | 10 () | 12 () | 0.26 | patients with complications or incident VTE | 19 () | 43 () | 0.44 |
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Note: values are (%) unless otherwise specified. IQR: interquartile range; : Fisher’s exact test.
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