Cargando…

Does packed red cell transfusion provide symptomatic benefits to cancer palliative patients?: a longitudinal study from a single private oncology center in Nepal

BACKGROUND: Palliative patients generally present with symptoms of dyspnea, easy fatigability, lethargy and feeling of being unwell which can broadly be attributed to one root cause: cancer-related anemia. So, packed red cell transfusion is often carried out aiming to improve patients’ functional st...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Timilsina, Sameer, Karki, Sirisa, Timalsina, Santosh, Gautam, Aajeevan, Sharma, Sabitri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6685247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31387568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-019-0454-1