Severe Pulmonary Suppuration with Infection-Induced Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome following Tongue Cancer Surgery in a Patient Undergoing Tocilizumab Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

A 65-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis treated by tocilizumab (TCZ) presented with tongue squamous cell carcinoma. While surgery was performed without any complications the aspiration pneumonia rapidly worsened by postoperative day 2 and severe pulmonary suppuration in the right lung field wi...

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Autores principales: Yamagata, Kenji, Shimojo, Nobutake, Ito, Hiroyuki, Ijima, Junya, Hasegawa, Shogo, Yanagawa, Toru, Mizutani, Taro, Bukawa, Hiroki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4020557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24872899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/649086

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