Diarrhea as initial manifestation of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma: a case report and literature review

Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma (PAIS) is a rare malignant tumor that presents with nonspecific symptoms and may be misdiagnosed as thromboembolic disease. We report a case of a 40-year-old female who presented with diarrhea as the initial symptom, was misdiagnosed and received thrombolytic therapy...

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Autores principales: Xu, Xiaoling, Zhang, Ruifeng, Hu, Huihui, Ye, Wu, Wang, Jin, Chen, Liying, Qiu, Lijun, Ying, Kejing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4583115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26425101
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S90933
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author Xu, Xiaoling
Zhang, Ruifeng
Hu, Huihui
Ye, Wu
Wang, Jin
Chen, Liying
Qiu, Lijun
Ying, Kejing
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Zhang, Ruifeng
Hu, Huihui
Ye, Wu
Wang, Jin
Chen, Liying
Qiu, Lijun
Ying, Kejing
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description Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma (PAIS) is a rare malignant tumor that presents with nonspecific symptoms and may be misdiagnosed as thromboembolic disease. We report a case of a 40-year-old female who presented with diarrhea as the initial symptom, was misdiagnosed and received thrombolytic therapy for presumed pulmonary embolism. Progressive symptoms and subsequent surgery led to the diagnosis of PAIS, and early relapse after pulmonary endarterectomy. Her survival time was 17 months after pulmonary endarterectomy. To our knowledge, diarrhea as initial manifestation of PAIS has not been described.
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spelling pubmed-45831152015-09-30 Diarrhea as initial manifestation of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma: a case report and literature review Xu, Xiaoling Zhang, Ruifeng Hu, Huihui Ye, Wu Wang, Jin Chen, Liying Qiu, Lijun Ying, Kejing Onco Targets Ther Case Report Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma (PAIS) is a rare malignant tumor that presents with nonspecific symptoms and may be misdiagnosed as thromboembolic disease. We report a case of a 40-year-old female who presented with diarrhea as the initial symptom, was misdiagnosed and received thrombolytic therapy for presumed pulmonary embolism. Progressive symptoms and subsequent surgery led to the diagnosis of PAIS, and early relapse after pulmonary endarterectomy. Her survival time was 17 months after pulmonary endarterectomy. To our knowledge, diarrhea as initial manifestation of PAIS has not been described. Dove Medical Press 2015-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4583115/ /pubmed/26425101 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S90933 Text en © 2015 Xu et al.. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
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Chen, Liying
Qiu, Lijun
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title Diarrhea as initial manifestation of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma: a case report and literature review
title_full Diarrhea as initial manifestation of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma: a case report and literature review
title_fullStr Diarrhea as initial manifestation of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma: a case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Diarrhea as initial manifestation of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma: a case report and literature review
title_short Diarrhea as initial manifestation of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma: a case report and literature review
title_sort diarrhea as initial manifestation of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma: a case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4583115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26425101
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S90933
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