The authors report two cases of myocardial infarction following the injection of vincristine. The vincristine is held responsible for several reasons: absence of past history or risk factors of coronary artery disease, no past history of mediastinal radiotherapy, the development of coronary
An 18-year-old male patient with Hodgkin's disease, having undergone radiotherapy to the mediastinum two-and-a-half years previously, developed symptoms of an acute myocardial infarction within three hours of a vincristine injection (the first course of vincristine chemotherapy had been finished
We present a case of an elderly man with coronary artery disease who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Soon after the administration of chemotherapy, which included rituximab and vincristine, he developed acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock. The condition was managed
Five patients with lymphoma and Vincristine induced myocardial infarction are described in the medical literature. We report two new cases, in whom an anterior myocardial infarction developed few hours after the second administration of the drug. In the reported cases a strict cause-to-effect
A patient with lymphosarcoma treated with weekly injections of vincristine developed an acute myocardial infarction immediately after the second injection of vincristine. After he recovered from the infarction, the treatment was continued and he developed an additional myocardial infarction. In vivo
BACKGROUND
Doxorubicin cardiotoxicity is one of the most serious side effects of the cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone chemotherapy, regimen, especially among elderly patients. In the CEOP regimen, epirubicin was substituted for doxorubicin to reduce
Thirty-three evaluable patients with Hodgkin's disease who failed radiotherapy were treated on this phase II study with bleomycin, lomustine, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone given every 28 days for a minimum of eight courses. Twenty-five patients (76%; 95% CI=55.6-87.1%)
This article presents a young patient affected with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who developed acute myocardial infarction 7 days after treatment with epirubicin (90 mg/m2, day 1), cyclophosphamide (600 mg/m2, day 1), vincristine (2 mg, day 1), prednisolone (100 mg, days 1-5), and ondansetron (3 x 4 mg/day,
BACKGROUND
Rituximab has rarely been associated with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). We report the case of a patient in whom rituximab, a monoclonal antibody used to treat lymphomas of B-cell origin, induced ST elevation myocardial infarction.
METHODS
A 46-year-old male patient diagnosed with stage
The authors describe the first case of myocardial infarction in their department which occurred during 5-fluorouracil treatment. In a 37 year-old patient two years before the infarction an epidermoid carcinoma of the lower lip was found. The patient was subjected to operation and radiotherapy.
An 82-year-old woman developed acute neuropsychiatric signs (confusion, disorders of speech and vision) together with ataxic gait and left hemiparesis mainly affecting the lower limb. For 10 years she had been known to have chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL) which had not hitherto needed treatment.
OBJECTIVE
To report the ocurrence of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in a patient with multiple myeloma treated with vincristine and doxorubicin.
METHODS
A 46-year-old man developed a Q-wave inferior and right-ventricle myocardial infarction with postinfarction angina after receiving his third cycle of
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