Pericarditis after high-dose chemotherapy: More frequent than expected?

Onkologie

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 321-324

  Bock, Jürgen ^a   Doenitz, Anna ^a   Andreesen, Reinhard ^a   Reichle, Albrecht ^a   Hennemann, Burkhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Pericarditis; Side effects; Treosulfan

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DICLOFENAC; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IDARUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; TREOSULFAN; TROPONIN I; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER RELAPSE; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PERICARDITIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RARE DISEASE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745802792     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093528     Document Type: Article

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