Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in a Cancer Patient with Thrombocytopenia: A Treatment Dilemma

The association between cancer and venous thromboembolism (VTE) is well established. Saddle pulmonary embolism is not uncommon in hospitalized cancer patients and confers a higher mortality. We report a case of saddle pulmonary embolism in a cancer patient with thrombocytopenia, discuss the bleeding...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Zalpour, Ali, Hanzelka, Katy, Patlan, John T., Rozner, Marc A., Yusuf, Syed Wamique
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2010
Materias:
Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21234423
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/835750
_version_ 1782195378645368832
author Zalpour, Ali
Hanzelka, Katy
Patlan, John T.
Rozner, Marc A.
Yusuf, Syed Wamique
author_facet Zalpour, Ali
Hanzelka, Katy
Patlan, John T.
Rozner, Marc A.
Yusuf, Syed Wamique
author_sort Zalpour, Ali
collection PubMed
description The association between cancer and venous thromboembolism (VTE) is well established. Saddle pulmonary embolism is not uncommon in hospitalized cancer patients and confers a higher mortality. We report a case of saddle pulmonary embolism in a cancer patient with thrombocytopenia, discuss the bleeding risks, complexity of managing such patients and review current guidelines.
format Text
id pubmed-3014716
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2010
publisher SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-30147162011-01-13 Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in a Cancer Patient with Thrombocytopenia: A Treatment Dilemma Zalpour, Ali Hanzelka, Katy Patlan, John T. Rozner, Marc A. Yusuf, Syed Wamique Cardiol Res Pract Review Article The association between cancer and venous thromboembolism (VTE) is well established. Saddle pulmonary embolism is not uncommon in hospitalized cancer patients and confers a higher mortality. We report a case of saddle pulmonary embolism in a cancer patient with thrombocytopenia, discuss the bleeding risks, complexity of managing such patients and review current guidelines. SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2010-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3014716/ /pubmed/21234423 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/835750 Text en Copyright © 2011 Ali Zalpour et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Review Article
Zalpour, Ali
Hanzelka, Katy
Patlan, John T.
Rozner, Marc A.
Yusuf, Syed Wamique
Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in a Cancer Patient with Thrombocytopenia: A Treatment Dilemma
title Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in a Cancer Patient with Thrombocytopenia: A Treatment Dilemma
title_full Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in a Cancer Patient with Thrombocytopenia: A Treatment Dilemma
title_fullStr Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in a Cancer Patient with Thrombocytopenia: A Treatment Dilemma
title_full_unstemmed Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in a Cancer Patient with Thrombocytopenia: A Treatment Dilemma
title_short Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in a Cancer Patient with Thrombocytopenia: A Treatment Dilemma
title_sort saddle pulmonary embolism in a cancer patient with thrombocytopenia: a treatment dilemma
topic Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21234423
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/835750
work_keys_str_mv AT zalpourali saddlepulmonaryembolisminacancerpatientwiththrombocytopeniaatreatmentdilemma
AT hanzelkakaty saddlepulmonaryembolisminacancerpatientwiththrombocytopeniaatreatmentdilemma
AT patlanjohnt saddlepulmonaryembolisminacancerpatientwiththrombocytopeniaatreatmentdilemma
AT roznermarca saddlepulmonaryembolisminacancerpatientwiththrombocytopeniaatreatmentdilemma
AT yusufsyedwamique saddlepulmonaryembolisminacancerpatientwiththrombocytopeniaatreatmentdilemma

Ejemplares similares