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Thrombosis of abdominal aorta during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of testicular seminoma - a case report
BACKGROUND: Vascular complications occurring during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of germ cell tumours are inadequately recognized to date. CASE PRESENTATION: A 49 year old man with advanced seminoma underwent two courses of chemotherapy according to the PEB regimen. Upon restaging, two thrombotic de...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20028501 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-9-459 |
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author | Dieckmann, Klaus-Peter Gehrckens, Ralf |
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description | BACKGROUND: Vascular complications occurring during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of germ cell tumours are inadequately recognized to date. CASE PRESENTATION: A 49 year old man with advanced seminoma underwent two courses of chemotherapy according to the PEB regimen. Upon restaging, two thrombotic deposits were noted in the descending part of the thoracic aorta and in the infrarenal abdominal aorta, respectively. Although thrombotic plaques caused aortic occlusion of about 30%, no clinical signs of malperfusion of limbs were registered. The patient was placed on anticoagulant therapy. Six months after completion of chemotherapy, thrombotic deposits had completely resolved. In the absence of other predisposing factors, it must be assumed that cisplatin-based chemotherapy represented a strong stimulus for arterial thrombosis in the aorta. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first case of endo-aortic thrombosis during chemotherapy for testicular germ cell cancer. Providers of chemotherapy must be aware of arterial thrombosis even in young patients with testicular cancer. |
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spelling | pubmed-28016842010-01-05 Thrombosis of abdominal aorta during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of testicular seminoma - a case report Dieckmann, Klaus-Peter Gehrckens, Ralf BMC Cancer Case Report BACKGROUND: Vascular complications occurring during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of germ cell tumours are inadequately recognized to date. CASE PRESENTATION: A 49 year old man with advanced seminoma underwent two courses of chemotherapy according to the PEB regimen. Upon restaging, two thrombotic deposits were noted in the descending part of the thoracic aorta and in the infrarenal abdominal aorta, respectively. Although thrombotic plaques caused aortic occlusion of about 30%, no clinical signs of malperfusion of limbs were registered. The patient was placed on anticoagulant therapy. Six months after completion of chemotherapy, thrombotic deposits had completely resolved. In the absence of other predisposing factors, it must be assumed that cisplatin-based chemotherapy represented a strong stimulus for arterial thrombosis in the aorta. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first case of endo-aortic thrombosis during chemotherapy for testicular germ cell cancer. Providers of chemotherapy must be aware of arterial thrombosis even in young patients with testicular cancer. BioMed Central 2009-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2801684/ /pubmed/20028501 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-9-459 Text en Copyright ©2009 Dieckmann and Gehrckens; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Dieckmann, Klaus-Peter Gehrckens, Ralf Thrombosis of abdominal aorta during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of testicular seminoma - a case report |
title | Thrombosis of abdominal aorta during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of testicular seminoma - a case report |
title_full | Thrombosis of abdominal aorta during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of testicular seminoma - a case report |
title_fullStr | Thrombosis of abdominal aorta during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of testicular seminoma - a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Thrombosis of abdominal aorta during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of testicular seminoma - a case report |
title_short | Thrombosis of abdominal aorta during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of testicular seminoma - a case report |
title_sort | thrombosis of abdominal aorta during cisplatin-based chemotherapy of testicular seminoma - a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20028501 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-9-459 |
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