Worm-like thrombus in left main coronary artery after cytostatic treatment.
This paper reports a 43-year-old patient who had a large, mobile, worm-like thrombus in the left main coronary artery after receiving a chemotherapy regimen containing cisplatin, bleomycin and etoposide for a nonseminomatous testes tumor. The patient was successfully treated with thrombolytic therapy. Physicians should be aware that thrombotic events may be observed after the administration of certain chemotherapeutic agents, particularly cisplatin.
Karavelioglu
Yusuf
Y
Corum State Hospital, Corum, Turkey.
Ekicibasi
Erkan
E
Tanalp
Ali C
AC
Karapinar
Hekim
H
Aung
Soe M
SM
D000328:Adult; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003328:Coronary Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D054697:Cytostatic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
D054697:Cytostatic Agents