Has anyone ever heard of a Greenfield Filter leg breaking off and becoming embedded somewhere else in the body

Answer 1

Yes.

Please see my other post. The second reference makes note of it as a known complication (altough exceedingly rare).

If the filter does fracture it will in all likely hood become stuck in the lungs or heart. The treatment would be retervial through an endovascular procedure (done by an interventional radiologist) and failing that you would nbend up with a very significant surgery.

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Answer 2

No, but that's scary. My 22 year old son has one, and so does my mother.