Making More Possible - Boston Scientific

# 2 Greenfield ® Vena Cava Filter
Introduced in 1980 by Kimray Medical, later Mansfield*
* Now sold by Boston Scientific’s Peripheral Interventions business
The Greenfield Vena Cava Filter is an
implantable filter used in peripheral intervention
procedures designed to prevent blood clots
from reaching the lungs, otherwise know as
pulmonary embolism. The filter is implanted in
more than 10,000 patients annually who are at
high risk for clotting, especially those receiving
knee and hip-replacement surgery, cancer
patients and trauma victims. Since its
introduction, the Greenfield Filter has been
implanted in more than 600,000 patients.