TY - JOUR
AU - Stewart,  D. J.
AB - Background: Patients with cancer may be hypercoagulable, and smoking can cause both lung cancer and peripheral vascular disease. Cisplatin-based chemotherapy has been reported to cause a variety of vascular side effects. Case reports: Five patients with bronchogenic carcinoma and peripheral vascular disease developed acute arterial occlusion soon after receiving a combination of cisplatin or carboplatin plus etoposide. All these patients had risk factors for atherosclerosis and three of them had preexisting known peripheral vascular disease. Conclusions: The occurrence of acute arterial occlusion soon after initiation of chemotherapy suggests that it might have been a complication of this therapy. Hence, caution should be exercised when using platinum-based (and other?) chemotherapy in patients with known moderate or severe peripheral vascular disease.
TI - Arterial occlusion in patients with peripheral vascular disease treated with platinum-based regimens for lung cancer
JF - Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
DO - 10.1007/s002800050619
DA - 1997-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/arterial-occlusion-in-patients-with-peripheral-vascular-disease-B0HxtKrIRD
SP - 19
EP - 22
VL - 40
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -