Medical devices and the FDA approval process: balancing safety and innovation; comment on "prevalence of fracture and fragment embolization of bard retrievable vena cava filters and clinical implications including cardiac perforation and tamponade"

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Comment

Rita F Redberg. Arch Intern Med. 2010.

. 2010 Nov 8;170(20):1831-3.

doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.323. Epub 2010 Aug 9.

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus, M-1180, San Francisco, CA 94143-0124, USA. redberg@medicine.ucsf.edu

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Prevalence of fracture and fragment embolization of Bard retrievable vena cava filters and clinical implications including cardiac perforation and tamponade.
Nicholson W, Nicholson WJ, Tolerico P, Taylor B, Solomon S, Schryver T, McCullum K, Goldberg H, Mills J, Schuler B, Shears L, Siddoway L, Agarwal N, Tuohy C. Nicholson W, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010 Nov 8;170(20):1827-31. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.316. Epub 2010 Aug 9. Arch Intern Med. 2010. PMID: 20696949