Temple’s Dr. Riyaz Bashir led a research team that sought to compare the outcomes associated with patients receiving prophylactic inferior vena cava filters (IVCF) prior to bariatric surgery to those who did not receive IVCFs. The team’s findings suggest the practice of implanting the IVCFs on a prophylactic basis prior to bariatric surgery is associated with worse clinical outcomes and increased healthcare resource utilization.
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org