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Treatment of recurrent pulmonary emboli

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If the patient continues to have pulmonary emboli, and anticoagulation has failed or is contra-indicated for example, because of a bleeding ulcer, options remaining include:

  • femoral vein ligation
  • various sorts of inferior caval filters

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