Embolismo pulmonar tumoral: Reporte de dos casos

Dyspnea and hypoxemia in a patient with cancer may have several causes, including infections, thromboembolism, metastases, and pulmonary injuries by drugs. We report a 47-year-old female with breast cancer and a 70-year-old male with urinary bladder cancer who were admitted for dyspnea, hypoxemia an...

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Autores principales: Chertcoff,Felipe J, Emery,Nicholas C, Villagomez,Renzo, Veltri,Miguel A, Venditti,Julio, Young,Pablo, Ubaldini,Jorge
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Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2009
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720090012000112010-05-24Embolismo pulmonar tumoral: Reporte de dos casosChertcoff,Felipe JEmery,Nicholas CVillagomez,RenzoVeltri,Miguel AVenditti,JulioYoung,PabloUbaldini,Jorge Breast neoplasms Intracraneal embolism and thrombosis Urinary bladder neoplasms Dyspnea and hypoxemia in a patient with cancer may have several causes, including infections, thromboembolism, metastases, and pulmonary injuries by drugs. We report a 47-year-old female with breast cancer and a 70-year-old male with urinary bladder cancer who were admitted for dyspnea, hypoxemia and pulmonary hypertension. Chest X rays and CT scans were normal. The ventilation-perfusion scintigram was highly suspicions of thromboembolism in the female. The male died 16 hours after admission and the post mortem examination revealed the presence of tumor cells in the pulmonary vasculature.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.137 n.12 20092009-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872009001200011es10.4067/S0034-98872009001200011
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Breast neoplasms
Intracraneal embolism and thrombosis
Urinary bladder neoplasms
spellingShingle Breast neoplasms
Intracraneal embolism and thrombosis
Urinary bladder neoplasms
Chertcoff,Felipe J
Emery,Nicholas C
Villagomez,Renzo
Veltri,Miguel A
Venditti,Julio
Young,Pablo
Ubaldini,Jorge
Embolismo pulmonar tumoral: Reporte de dos casos
description Dyspnea and hypoxemia in a patient with cancer may have several causes, including infections, thromboembolism, metastases, and pulmonary injuries by drugs. We report a 47-year-old female with breast cancer and a 70-year-old male with urinary bladder cancer who were admitted for dyspnea, hypoxemia and pulmonary hypertension. Chest X rays and CT scans were normal. The ventilation-perfusion scintigram was highly suspicions of thromboembolism in the female. The male died 16 hours after admission and the post mortem examination revealed the presence of tumor cells in the pulmonary vasculature.
author Chertcoff,Felipe J
Emery,Nicholas C
Villagomez,Renzo
Veltri,Miguel A
Venditti,Julio
Young,Pablo
Ubaldini,Jorge
author_facet Chertcoff,Felipe J
Emery,Nicholas C
Villagomez,Renzo
Veltri,Miguel A
Venditti,Julio
Young,Pablo
Ubaldini,Jorge
author_sort Chertcoff,Felipe J
title Embolismo pulmonar tumoral: Reporte de dos casos
title_short Embolismo pulmonar tumoral: Reporte de dos casos
title_full Embolismo pulmonar tumoral: Reporte de dos casos
title_fullStr Embolismo pulmonar tumoral: Reporte de dos casos
title_full_unstemmed Embolismo pulmonar tumoral: Reporte de dos casos
title_sort embolismo pulmonar tumoral: reporte de dos casos
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2009
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872009001200011
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