title: Treatment with Corticosteroid for Pericardial Effusion in a Patient with Advanced Synchronous Esophageal and Gastric Cancers following Chemoradiotherapy.
abstract: Severe late toxicity following chemoradiotherapy in esophageal cancer, especially cardiac toxicity, is sometimes difficult to treat and is associated with mortality. However there is little published information with regard to patients with delayed pericardial effusion following chemoradiotherapy and its management. We herein report the case of a 63-year-old man with advanced synchronous esophageal and gastric cancers. This patient presented with pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade after definitive chemoradiotherapy and was successfully treated with corticosteroid after pericardiocentesis. No instances of pericardial and pleural effusions were observed during the 2-year follow-up period until his death from cancer relapses.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Osawa
authors.forename: Takanori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Takeji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saitoh
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kosugi
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Terai
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takayanagi
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hamaya
authors.forename: Ken
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authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: Mutsuhiro
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authors.lastname: Ikuma