Successful Treatment of Cardiac Angiosarcoma Associated with Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation with Nab-Paclitaxel: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Successful Treatment of Cardiac Angiosarcoma Associated with Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation with Nab-Paclitaxel: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Angiosarcoma of the heart is an uncommon soft tissue sarcoma. A few cases of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) associated with angiosarcoma occurring in various organs, but not the heart, have been reported. Although taxane is commonly used in the treatment of metastatic angiosarcoma, dat...

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Main Authors: Kazunori Honda, Masashi Ando, Keiji Sugiyama, Seiichiro Mitani, Toshiki Masuishi, Yukiya Narita, Hiroya Taniguchi, Shigenori Kadowaki, Takashi Ura, Kei Muro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2017-09-01
Series:Case Reports in Oncology
Subjects:
Angiosarcoma
Heart
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon
Nab-paclitaxel
Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/481194

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