Article History

Received: 7 December 2018

Accepted: 20 March 2019

First Online: 3 May 2019

Change Date: 20 June 2019

Change Type: Correction

Change Date: 27 November 2019

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: In the original publication, part of conflict of statement was incorrectly published

Change Details: In the original publication, part of the conflict of statement was incorrectly published as ���Dr. Bikdeli reports that he was approached by lawyers on behalf of plaintiffs in litigation related to IVC filters���. The correct statement should read as ���Dr. Bikdeli reports that he is a consulting expert (on behalf of the plaintiff) for litigation related to a specific type of IVC filters���.

Compliance with ethical standards

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: Dr. Bikdeli is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, through grant number T32 HL007854. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Dr. Bikdeli reports that he was approached by lawyers on behalf of plaintiffs in litigation related to IVC filters. He was contacted as a result of a Viewpoint published elsewhere in the past. The lawyers were unaware of the current submission and this manuscript has not been shared with them. The current study was designed before the communication related to the litigation case. Dr. Moustafa has served as an advisor or consultant for Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi; has served as a speaker for Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi-Sankyo and Sanofi; and has received grants from Sanofi, Bayer HealthCare and LFB. Dr. Monreal has served as an advisor or consultant for Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Boehringer Ingelheim, Leo Pharma, Pfizer, and Sanofi; has served as a speaker or a member of a speaker’s bureau for Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Daiichi-Sankyo, Leo Pharma, and Sanofi; and has received grants for clinical research from Sanofi and Bayer. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the author.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.