Successful management of refractory pleural effusion due to systemic immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis by vincristine adriamycin dexamethasone chemotherapy: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Refractory pleural effusion in systemic immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis without cardiac decompensation is rarely reported and has a poor prognosis in general (a median survival of 1.6 months). Moreover, the optimum treatment for this condition is still undecided. This is the fir...

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Autores principales: Araoka, Toshikazu, Takeoka, Hiroya, Nishioka, Keisuke, Ikeda, Masaki, Kondo, Makiko, Hoshina, Azusa, Kishi, Seiji, Araki, Makoto, Mimura, Rokuro, Murakami, Taichi, Mima, Akira, Nagai, Kojiro, Abe, Hideharu, Doi, Toshio
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20955545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-322

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20955545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-322

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