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| Title |
Successful palliation for an aged patient with primary pericardial mesothelioma
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| Published in |
World Journal of Surgical Oncology, September 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12957-015-0692-5 |
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| Authors |
Ryutaro Isoda, Hiromichi Yamane, Shintaro Nezuo, Yasumasa Monobe, Nobuaki Ochi, Yoshihiro Honda, Satoshi Nishimura, Maki Akiyama, Takeshi Horio, Nagio Takigawa |
| Abstract |
An 85-year-old Japanese man with a complaint of exertional dyspnea was admitted to our hospital. Sixty-three years prior to admission at our hospital, he handled asbestos for 2 years in a factory. His chest computed tomography showed a massive pericardial effusion leading to cardiac tamponade and right pleural plaque. After a pericardiocentesis was performed, he recovered from cardiac failure caused by the cardiac tamponade. Pathological examination of the pericardial effusion revealed malignant mesothelial cells. Therefore, he was diagnosed with primary pericardial mesothelioma (PPM) related to asbestos exposure. Although his disease slowly progressed over 18 months, he remained active without any adjuvant treatments such as chemotherapy. Long-term palliation in an aged patient with PPM is rarely obtained using supportive care alone because the prognosis of PPM has been consistently reported to be very poor and almost fatal within a year. Clinical oncologists and thoracic surgeons should be aware of this disease because the accumulation of knowledge on PPM may lead to successful treatment even in aged patients. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 28 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 7 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 4 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 50% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 4% |
| Philosophy | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 6 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 September 2015.
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