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A patient with a relatively localized occult carcinoma of the lung and hemorrhage secondary to chronic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) which continued for eight months is described. Despite continuing DIC two major operations were performed without excessive blood loss. Preoperative heparinization, in vitro clotting of the arterial graft, and temporary postoperative reversal of systemic heparin were utilized for abdominal aortic aneurysm resection. Blood product replacement therapy facilitated an emergency laparotomy. The patient was also managed successfully for several months without anticoagulant therapy. A hypothesis that vascular thrombi are not a necessary prerequisite for DIC is proposed. This hypothesis is based on the absence of thrombi or evidence of ischemia in this patient and in others and is supported by experimental observations made by other investigators.
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PMID:Case report: chronic disseminated intravascular coagulation due to occult carcinoma. 90 Jan 58

We report a case illustrating the therapeutic consequences of an intravenous metastasis to the left superior pulmonary vein following resection of a voluminous primary lung carcinoma. Arterial spread of malignant cells occurred because the size of the tumor did not allow immediate clamping of the left superior pulmonary vein. The embolism was situated at the aortic bifurcation and lower limb ischemia persisted despite also emergency embolectomy. Distal (lower popliteal) embolectomy was also unsuccessful, and lower limb amputation was inevitable. This case illustrates the problems encountered in surgical treatment of pulmonary vein invasion by lung carcinoma and the role of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
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PMID:[Acute arterial neoplastic embolism after pneumonectomy for primary bronchial cancer. Clinical and therapeutic consequences apropos of a case]. 166 52

We report a case illustrating the therapeutic consequences of an intravenous metastasis to the left superior pulmonary vein following resection of a voluminous primary lung carcinoma. Arterial spread of malignant cells occurred because the size of the tumor did not allow immediate clamping of the left superior pulmonary vein. The embolism was situated at the aortic bifurcation and lower limb ischemia persisted despite also emergency embolectomy. Distal (lower popliteal) embolectomy was also unsuccessful, and lower limb amputation was inevitable. This case illustrates the problems encountered in surgical treatment of pulmonary vein invasion by lung carcinoma and the role of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
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PMID:[Acute neoplastic arterial embolism after pneumonectomy for primary bronchial cancer. Clinical and therapeutic consequences apropos of a case]. 176 24

An experience of surgical non-thoracic emergencies in patients admitted for chronic lung disease is herein presented. Fifty-four patients out of 10457 admitted in the four Departments of Pneumology of the Binaghi Hospital (Cagliari) between 1-1-1985 and 31-3-1993, were referred to our Department of General Surgery due to non-thoracic surgical emergencies. There was a considerable delay in the referral (only 25% of patients within 12 hours from the onset of symptoms): indeed predominant respiratory symptoms, hypoxia and hypercapnia made these patients no responsive to symptoms of surgical emergency. Surgical emergencies in causal correlation with respiratory disease (intestinal occlusion due to abdominal metastases of lung carcinoma, complicated peptic ulcer) had the worst prognosis (mortality: 52.9%). Those in chance connection, such as acute limb ischemia and preexisting abdominal disease, had a less adverse outcome. Mortality, however, was 37.5%: this datum outlines the role of chronic lung disease in defining operative risk. The authors call attention to three groups of observed patients: 1) three patients were operated on for intestinal occlusion due to unrecognized abdominal neoplasia, that showed itself in the course of hospitalization in the Department of Pneumology for lung metastases; 2) in 3 cases symptoms and signs of acute abdomen were observed without abdominal disease. The cause of acute pseudoabdomen was diaphragmatic pleural or basal pulmonary inflammation; 3) the eight patients with pulmonary embolism were all admitted in the Department of Pneumology with a wrong diagnosis of bronchopneumonia.
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PMID:[Extrathoracic surgical emergencies in hospitalized patients with bronchopulmonary diseases. Analysis of the operative risk]. 780 66

Graded compression color Doppler sonography was used to evaluate gastrointestinal blood flow in 20 normal fasting subjects and 32 patients with focal gastrointestinal lesions. Imaging was optimized for color sensitivity using a 5 MHz linear array transducer. Criteria were established for normal mural blood flow based on findings in normal controls. Two reviewers blinded to the final diagnosis compared patterns of mural vascularity in normal and abnormal patients. Increased mural blood flow was demonstrated in all 32 patients with gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders and in seven of nine patients with neoplasms. No mural flow was demonstrated in four patients with small bowel infarction. The greatest overall degree of flow was noted in patients with Crohn's disease and cytomegalovirus colitis. Flow in tumors was variable, ranging from strikingly increased flow in a giant villoglandular polyp to absent flow in a metastasis from lung carcinoma. Our preliminary experience suggests that the presence of considerable overlap in the color Doppler patterns of mural blood flow in inflammatory and neoplastic lesions. Color Doppler sonography alone without spectral waveform analysis may not distinguish focal inflammatory from neoplastic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract reliably. However, this technique potentially may be useful in diagnosing small bowel ischemia when thickened segments of small bowel are identified with absent flow.
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PMID:Color Doppler sonography of focal gastrointestinal lesions: initial clinical experience. 808 48

We present what we believe is the first case in the literature of carcinoma of the lung presenting de novo as an intracardiac mass with bilateral, simultaneous popliteal artery embolization. Arterial thromboembolism of cardiac origin and in situ thrombosis of a preexisting atherosclerotic lesion or aneurysm account for the majority of cases of acute lower extremity ischemia. Less common causes include trauma, aortic dissection, venous ischemia, and foreign body or tissue embolization. Although the history, physical examination, and electrocardiographic findings may provide a likely explanation in many cases, noninvasive studies such as echocardiography may help further elucidate the embolic source.
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PMID:An unusual presentation of simultaneous bilateral popliteal artery embolism--a case report. 967 57

Raynaud's phenomenon, digital ischemia, antinuclear antibodies and anticardiolipin antibodies are uncommon features of malignancy. The association of all of these in a patient with malignancy has not previously been reported. We describe a 52 year old woman with non small-cell carcinoma of the lung who also had Raynaud's phenomenon, digital ischemia, anti-nuclear antibodies and anticardiolipin antibodies.
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PMID:Anti-cardiolipin antibodies, Raynaud's phenomenon with digital ischemia, and non small cell carcinoma of the lung. 1146 30

Patients suffering from atherosclerotic diseases are prone to repeated episodes of ischemia/reperfusion that has been demonstrated to induce oxidative stress by formation of oxygen free radicals. It might therefore be expected that such endogenously exposure to free radicals increases the individual cancer risk in patients with atherosclerotic diseases. We therefore studied the sex-specific risk of lung cancer and other cancers in atherosclerotic patients in a prospective study conducted in the Copenhagen area. The study cohort was linked to the Danish Hospital Discharge Register and we identified 2261 1-year survivors of atherosclerotic diseases through 1977 and 1993, while 26150 of the study subjects had no record of an atherosclerotic diagnosis. After linkage to the Danish Cancer Registry associations between atherosclerosis and cancer were analysed for each sex separately by means of Cox proportional hazard regression models. Atherosclerotic women had a significant RR of lung cancer of 3.26 (95% CI: 1.95-5.46) compared to non-atherosclerotic women after adjustment for age, calendar period, study population, smoking habits, school education and alcohol consumption. No significant risk of male lung cancer, RR=1.12 (95% CI: 0.77-1.64), or other smoking-related cancers in either sex was observed after multivariate adjustment. Atherosclerosis did not predict non-smoking-related cancers in general in either men, RR=0.91 (95% CI 0.69-1.20), or women, RR=0.93 (95% CI: 0.64-1.35). We hypothesize that oxidative stress due to episodes of ischemia/reperfusion increases the risk of lung cancer in atherosclerotic females because of a gender specific susceptibility to oxidative DNA damage.
Lung Cancer 2003 Dec
PMID:Association between atherosclerosis and female lung cancer--a Danish cohort study. 1464 11

Peripheral arterial embolism from a malignant tumour is an uncommon manifestation of a neoplasm. Here, we present a case of acute upper limb ischemia due to an embolus originating from primary lung malignancy invading the left atrium.
Lung Cancer 2007 Aug
PMID:Peripheral arterial ischemia by a primary lung tumour invading left atrium. 1735 Jul 12

Vascular disrupting agents (VDAs) are an exciting new group of targeted therapies under active clinical research in many solid tumors, in particular, lung cancer. Small-molecule VDAs are the focus of current clinical research, and consist of the flavonoids and the tubulin-binding agents. Toxicities of single-agent VDAs are characterized by acute, transient, and generally noncumulative side effects including headaches, nausea and vomiting, tumor pain, hypertension, and tachycardia. Flavonoid agents can also cause infusion site pain, visual disturbances, electrocardiac abnormalities, and symptoms consistent with an acute release of serotonin. Tubulin-binding agents can result in cardiac ischemia, abdominal pain, neuromotor abnormalities and cerebellar ataxia, and acute hemodynamic changes. Clinical trials investigating VDAs in combination with traditional chemotherapy have also shown the potential for significant pharmacologic and adverse toxicity interactions. Further research will need to focus on pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters to optimize dosing schedules, determine effective combinations with chemotherapy, and minimize toxicities associated with VDAs.
Clin Lung Cancer 2011 Jan
PMID:Classification and toxicities of vascular disrupting agents. 2127 75


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