tachypnea/breast neoplasms

Spontaneous reporting systems may generate a large volume of information in real world conditions with a relatively low cost. Disproportionality measures are useful to indicate and quantify unexpected safety issues associated with a given drug-event pair (signals of disproportionality), based upon

We report herein on a rare case of tetanus originating from ulcerated breast cancer. A 60-year-old homeless woman was admitted to our hospital because of lockjaw. On admission, a physical examination revealed tachypnea, trismus, opisthotonus and an ulcerated right breast. There was no other skin

We present a case report of fat embolism syndrome (FES) that resulted in prolonged coma after cemented hemiarthroplasty in a patient with metastatic breast cancer. After the cemented hip prosthesis was placed, the patient developed decreased sensorium that progressed to coma in association with

A previously healthy, 52-year-old woman presented with a nine months history of low fever and weight loss (> 30 kg). Physical examination disclosed generalized lymphadenopathy, skin lesions, abdominal distension, mild tachypnea and a left breast mass. Laboratory tests showed anemia; (prerenal)

Diffuse pulmonary infiltrates and acute respiratory compromise frequently occur in patients with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy, and treatment remains controversial. We initiated a prospective randomized trial in 22 nonneutropenic patients to compare the efficacy of immediate open lung

OBJECTIVE To report a case of a fatal myocardial infarction (MI) possibly induced by paclitaxel in a patient with metastatic breast cancer. METHODS A 67-year-old African-American woman with metastatic breast cancer was treated with a paclitaxel infusion. Fifteen hours into the 24-hour continuous

A 59-year-old woman presented at the emergency department with cough and weakness that started a few days before. She had a history of breast cancer treated with mastectomy with negative followup. Physical examination revealed tachycardia and tachypnea, normal blood pressure, lower lobe crackles

An increasing number of reports describing Escherichia coli isolates with piperacillin/tazobactam resistance, despite retained cephalosporin susceptibility, suggest further emergence of this phenotypic resistance pattern. In this report, a patient with metastatic breast cancer presented to

Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy is a rare form of pulmonary tumor embolism clinically indistinguishable from pulmonary thromboembolic disease. It is characterized by fibrocellular intimal proliferation of small pulmonary arteries and arterioles in patients with intraluminal tumor