Background: Administrative data have shown a lower mortality in hospitalized patients with pulmonary embolism and cancer who receive a vena cava filter. In the absence of a randomized controlled trial of vena cava filters in such patients, further investigation is necessary. Therefore, we performed this investigation using administrative data from a different database than used previously, and we investigate patients hospitalized in more recent years.
Methods: We analyzed administrative data from the Premier Healthcare Database, 2010-2014, in patients hospitalized with pulmonary embolism and solid malignant tumors. Patients were identified on the basis of International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes.
Results: Patients aged >60 years had a lower in-hospital all-cause mortality with vena cava filters than those who did not have filters, 346 of 4648 (7.4%) compared with 2216 of 19,847 (11.2%) (P < .0001) (relative risk 0.67). Among patients aged >60 years who received an inferior vena cava, all-cause mortality within 3 months was 704 of 4648 (15.1%), compared with 3444 of 19,847 (17.4%) among those who did not receive a filter (P < .0001) (relative risk 0.86).
Conclusion: Elderly patients with pulmonary embolism and cancer may be a special population in whom inferior vena cava filters reduce in-hospital and 3-month all-cause mortality. Further investigation is needed, particularly in younger patients.
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