Incidentally Discovered Aortic Thrombosis in a Patient Undergoing Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer

This case report describes a 68-year-old male who presented to the emergency department (ED) with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and fatigue after starting adjuvant combination chemotherapy with capecitabine and oxaliplatin two weeks prior. Further evaluation of this patient in the ED r...

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Autores principales: Burton, Kyle A, Gualdoni, Steven, Acharya, Sheetal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37323352
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39042
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description This case report describes a 68-year-old male who presented to the emergency department (ED) with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and fatigue after starting adjuvant combination chemotherapy with capecitabine and oxaliplatin two weeks prior. Further evaluation of this patient in the ED revealed an incidentally discovered aortic thrombosis, of which this patient did not exhibit any specific symptoms. This case, among a few others, has described the development of arterial thrombosis in patients with cancer undergoing combination chemotherapy with capecitabine and oxaliplatin.
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spelling pubmed-102665072023-06-15 Incidentally Discovered Aortic Thrombosis in a Patient Undergoing Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer Burton, Kyle A Gualdoni, Steven Acharya, Sheetal Cureus Internal Medicine This case report describes a 68-year-old male who presented to the emergency department (ED) with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and fatigue after starting adjuvant combination chemotherapy with capecitabine and oxaliplatin two weeks prior. Further evaluation of this patient in the ED revealed an incidentally discovered aortic thrombosis, of which this patient did not exhibit any specific symptoms. This case, among a few others, has described the development of arterial thrombosis in patients with cancer undergoing combination chemotherapy with capecitabine and oxaliplatin. Cureus 2023-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10266507/ /pubmed/37323352 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39042 Text en Copyright © 2023, Burton et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Incidentally Discovered Aortic Thrombosis in a Patient Undergoing Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer
title Incidentally Discovered Aortic Thrombosis in a Patient Undergoing Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer
title_full Incidentally Discovered Aortic Thrombosis in a Patient Undergoing Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer
title_fullStr Incidentally Discovered Aortic Thrombosis in a Patient Undergoing Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Incidentally Discovered Aortic Thrombosis in a Patient Undergoing Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer
title_short Incidentally Discovered Aortic Thrombosis in a Patient Undergoing Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer
title_sort incidentally discovered aortic thrombosis in a patient undergoing capecitabine and oxaliplatin chemotherapy for colon cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266507/
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