Table 1.

Characteristics of included studies

Author	Year	Study type	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria	# Patients	Acute DVT management procedure	Angioplasty	IVC filter
Goldman	2017	Retrospective	Pediatric patients who underwent endovascular therapy for lower‐extremity venous obstruction	Stent placement prior to initial presentation to target institution, lack of postintervention follow up	6	Catheter directed thrombolysis or pharmocomechanical thrombolysis	Y	No
Husmann	2007	Retrospective	First episode DVT, symptoms <7 days	Not reported	11	Surgical Thrombectomy and Thrombolysis and AV fistula formation	Y	No
Kim	2017	Retrospective	Iliac vein–involved DVT, symptom onset <30 days, patients who underwent PMT with/without stent insertion.	Patients who have any risk for thrombolysis or anticoagulation. Patients who have hematologic disorder affecting the coagulation cascade. Pregnancy. Caused by tumor obstruction	25a	Pharmocomechanical Thrombectomy ± Thrombolysis	N	11/25 received IVC (removed 4 weeks after procedure)
Matsuda	2014	Retrospective	Individuals with continued left lower extremity symptoms due to venous stenosis or stasis detected by venography after thrombolytic therapy or thrombectomy for acute DVT	<40 years old, rich collateral through pelvic plexus, large vessel diameter	13	Catheter‐directed thrombolysis	N	Yes, all retrieved after procedure
Roy	2017	Retrospective	DVT in the setting of MTS, managed with PMT as the primary mode of intervention, in combination with angioplasty and stent placement	Not reported	6	Pharmocomechanical thrombolysis + stent, or angioplasty + stent	Y	No

AV, arteriovenous; DVT, deep vein thrombosis; IVC, iliac vein compression; MTS, May‐Thurner syndrome; PMT, pharmocomechanical thrombolysis.

One patient with right iliac vein compression between tortuous right iliac artery and psoas muscle included.