Concerns of a Post-Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy Patient of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Presenting with Sustained COVID-19 Infection

A 47-year-old patient was referred from otorhinolaryngologist with a chief complaint of hearing loss to the medical oncology department where he was diagnosed to have nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The patient was given six cycles of chemotherapy and 35# of radiotherapy. After a week of therapies,...

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Autores principales: Shweta, Vig, Saurabh, Rathore, Puneet, Kumar, Sanjeev, Bhatnagar, Sushma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088106
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_156_20
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author Shweta,
Vig, Saurabh
Rathore, Puneet
Kumar, Sanjeev
Bhatnagar, Sushma
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description A 47-year-old patient was referred from otorhinolaryngologist with a chief complaint of hearing loss to the medical oncology department where he was diagnosed to have nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The patient was given six cycles of chemotherapy and 35# of radiotherapy. After a week of therapies, he developed a low-grade fever. He was suspected of COVID-19, but the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test came out to be negative. He developed urinary retention, and he was planned for suprapubic catheterization. Before the procedure, he was retested for COVID-19 which came out to be positive. This case report aims to describe the condition of a patient of NPC with COVID-19 infection and to discuss the outcome of disease in this circumstance.
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spelling pubmed-75349832020-10-20 Concerns of a Post-Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy Patient of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Presenting with Sustained COVID-19 Infection Shweta, Vig, Saurabh Rathore, Puneet Kumar, Sanjeev Bhatnagar, Sushma Indian J Palliat Care Case Report A 47-year-old patient was referred from otorhinolaryngologist with a chief complaint of hearing loss to the medical oncology department where he was diagnosed to have nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The patient was given six cycles of chemotherapy and 35# of radiotherapy. After a week of therapies, he developed a low-grade fever. He was suspected of COVID-19, but the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test came out to be negative. He developed urinary retention, and he was planned for suprapubic catheterization. Before the procedure, he was retested for COVID-19 which came out to be positive. This case report aims to describe the condition of a patient of NPC with COVID-19 infection and to discuss the outcome of disease in this circumstance. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-06 2020-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7534983/ /pubmed/33088106 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_156_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Concerns of a Post-Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy Patient of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Presenting with Sustained COVID-19 Infection
title Concerns of a Post-Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy Patient of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Presenting with Sustained COVID-19 Infection
title_full Concerns of a Post-Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy Patient of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Presenting with Sustained COVID-19 Infection
title_fullStr Concerns of a Post-Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy Patient of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Presenting with Sustained COVID-19 Infection
title_full_unstemmed Concerns of a Post-Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy Patient of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Presenting with Sustained COVID-19 Infection
title_short Concerns of a Post-Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy Patient of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Presenting with Sustained COVID-19 Infection
title_sort concerns of a post-chemotherapy/radiotherapy patient of nasopharyngeal carcinoma presenting with sustained covid-19 infection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088106
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_156_20
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