Abstract
A 38-year-old morbidly obese male (BMI > 50 kg/m(2)) presents for an elective gastric bypass surgery. He has no personal or family history of venous thromboembolism or hypercoaguability. You are asked by his primary team whether he should receive a retrievable inferior vena cava filter preoperatively for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis.
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Case-Control Studies
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Device Removal
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Evidence-Based Medicine
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Gastric Bypass*
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Humans
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Male
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Postoperative Complications / prevention & control*
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Practice Guidelines as Topic*
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Prospective Studies
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Pulmonary Embolism / epidemiology
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Pulmonary Embolism / prevention & control
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Retrospective Studies
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Risk
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Unnecessary Procedures
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Vena Cava Filters* / adverse effects
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Venous Thromboembolism / prevention & control*
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Venous Thrombosis / epidemiology
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Venous Thrombosis / prevention & control