chemotherapy/edema

Following gastrectomy for locally advanced adenocarcinomas, three patients developed microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and renal failure shortly after completing courses of adjuvant chemotherapy with mitomycin and 5-FU. These complications progressed despite cessation of chemotherapy, and all three

The patient was a 69-year-old male who had started experiencing acute-onset pain in both shoulder joints and edema of both hands and feet. His symptoms progressively worsened within 1 month. Laboratory data indicated elevated CRP and erythrocyte sedimentation rate despite the normal range of

OBJECTIVE To elucidate the time course of taxane-induced edema which may affect the patients' quality of life (QOL). METHODS Our study included the first 300 Japanese patients assigned to 1 of 4 regimens using docetaxel (DTX) or paclitaxel (PTX) by 1:1:1:1 in a randomized controlled trial to

BACKGROUND The MINE regimen (mitoguazone, ifosfamide, vinorelbine and etoposide) is a salvage chemotherapy for relapsed and refractory Hodgkin's disease. METHODS We report the cases of a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy who had Hodgkin's disease and developed painful and massive subcutaneous

To study the effects of glucocorticoids and chemotherapeutic agents on the pathophysiology of the tumor-induced brain edema, the site of Evans blue-albumin extravasation, the distribution of extravasated serum albumin, and the extent of local astrocytic reaction were examined in a rat model of

To identify a novel treatment modality for postoperative, glioma-related refractory cerebral edema (RCE), eight patients with postoperative RCE received chemotherapy between January 2008 and July 2012 were enrolled. There were five males and three females aged between 24 and 65 years (mean 45.7

Re-expansion pulmonary edema (REPE) leading to hypoxic respiratory failure and death occurred following a unilateral low-volume (750 ml) thoracentesis in a young patient 8 days after high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDC/ASCT) for advanced-stage breast cancer. A higher

BACKGROUND Docetaxel is a chemotherapeutic agent of the taxane class of drugs for the treatment of breast cancer. We present a female patient who noted decreased vision after docetaxel treatment. METHODS A 45-year-old female patient received docetaxel treatment after resection of a breast carcinoma.

Several cancer therapeutic agents have been associated with pulmonary toxicity. Herein, we describe the case of a 73-year-old woman with breast cancer metastatic to the liver, who developed noncardiogenic pulmonary edema (NPE) while on treatment with gemcitabine plus docetaxel combination with

We encountered a patient with cystoid macular edema (CME) secondary to paclitaxel use. A 57-year-old man presented with gradual decreased bilateral vision. His chemotherapeutic regimen consisted of bevacizumab, paclitaxel (175 mg/m(2) for 5 months), and carboplatin. Optical coherence tomography

We present an 8-year-old male with metastatic alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS) who developed precipitous cardiopulmonary collapse with severe tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) 48 hr after initiation of chemotherapy. Despite no detectable pulmonary metastases, acute hypoxemic respiratory failure developed,

Chemotherapy is frequently used to treat adenocarcinoma. Thirty-nine cases are reviewed in which the patients developed a hemolytic-uremic-like syndrome, apparently in response to chemotherapy. About 44% of the patients had gastric adenocarcinoma, and 82% had received mitomycin C. Most patients

Background: Although decongestive physiotherapy combined with diuretics may be efficient in limb edemas, no such therapy has been described in the context of anasarca. Case Description: A bedbound 62-year-old man with stage IV pancreatic cancer, presenting with progressing severe

To evaluate the pattern of manifestation and risk factors for lower limb edema (LLE) within the prospective, observational, multi-center EMBRACE study on radiochemotherapy and MRI-guided brachytherapy in locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC). LLE was prospectively assessed according to the