Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Debbie S Benitez

Publications

• Case Report
  Catheter-Associated Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
  Author(s): Kamyar Afshar, Debbie S Benitez, Ali Ahoui and Purush Rao AKamyar Afshar, Debbie S Benitez, Ali Ahoui and Purush Rao A
  
  We report a 45 year old male with right sided pleural mesothelioma who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to a right extrapleural pneumonectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. The patient became tumor free and remained in remission for 19 months following which he developed a lymphangitic spread over the contralateral lung. His diagnosis was confirmed by a bronchoscopic transbronchial biopsy of the left lung. The patient died from progressive respiratory failure over a period of three months. Such a relapse with an aggressive and fatal lymphangitic spread is rarely seen and reported in malignant pleural mesothelioma. Discussion and review of the literature are provided. Mesothelioma is still considered, worldwide, a rare cancer of the serosal .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-105X.1000143

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