title: [Acute pulmonary edema during general anesthesia in a young woman treated with epirubicin].
abstract: The use of the anthracycline doxorubicin is restricted by its cardiac toxicity. Another anthracycline, epirubicin, is probably less cardiotoxic. A case is reported, where a 30 year-old woman with breast cancer, treated with epirubicin, developed pulmonary oedema during surgery and anaesthesia. The patient had no previous cardio-pulmonary disorders, and had only received 10% of the usual maximum dose of epirubicin. The different clinical presentations of anthracycline-induced cardiac toxicity are described.
authors.affiliation: Anaestesiologisk afdeling, Aalborg Sygehus.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kidmose
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Stolberg
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D015251:Epirubicin / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000139:chemically induced*
chemical_list: D015251:Epirubicin
vernacular_title: Akut lungeødem under generel anaestesi hos en epirubicinbehandlet ung kvinde.