Pulmonary Tumor Thrombotic Microangiopathy Due to Gastric Cancer Diagnosed Antemortem by a Cytological Examination of Aspirated Pulmonary Artery Blood

A 66-year-old Japanese man receiving systemic chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer presented with exertional dyspnea. D-dimer was elevated in the blood. Echocardiography revealed pulmonary hypertension, and a ventilation-perfusion scan indicated decreased perfusion in the bilateral lungs. Cardia...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Internal Medicine 2022/05/15, Vol.61(10), pp.1491-1495
Hauptverfasser:	Mitsui, Yasuhiro, Yagi, Mai, Muraki, Sho, Matsuura, Tomomi, Bando, Yoshimi, Fujimoto, Shota, Kitamura, Shinji, Okamoto, Koichi, Muguruma, Naoki, Sata, Masataka, Takayama, Tetsuji
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adenocarcinoma Aged Blood cardiac catheterization Case Report Catheterization Chemotherapy Dyspnea Echocardiography Embolization Gastric cancer Humans Internal medicine Lung Neoplasms - complications Lung Neoplasms - diagnosis Lung Neoplasms - metabolism Male Mechanical ventilation Neoplastic Cells, Circulating - pathology Perfusion Pulmonary artery Pulmonary Artery - diagnostic imaging Pulmonary Artery - pathology pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM) Respiration Retrospective Studies Stomach Neoplasms - complications Stomach Neoplasms - diagnosis Thrombotic Microangiopathies - diagnosis Thrombotic Microangiopathies - etiology Thrombotic microangiopathy Tomography, X-Ray Computed Tumors Vascular endothelial growth factor vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A - metabolism
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