[Use of cava-filter in the treatment of acute venous thrombosis in the end of pregnancy].

Cava-filters were implanted in 16 women suffering from acute thrombosis of the deep veins of the lower limbs in the third gestation trimester. Initial or relapsing thromboembolism of the pulmonary artery (TEPA) had place in 5 cases. Two types of filters were used, the REPTEPA ones being used more frequently. As a rule, a filter was implanted in the infrarenal segment of vena cava inferior. Complications occurred in two patients: perforation of right atrial wall and thrombosis of the filter. Pregnancy ended in delivery in all the cases, cesarean section was made in the majority of patients. No TEPA was recorded from the moment of cava-filter implantation. In remote period 15 women developed moderately expressed postthrombotic syndrome.