Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation with Enhanced Fibrinolysis Caused by Heart Metastasis of Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma

Clara Helal; Tiphaine Lambert; Bérangère S. Joly; Clément Dumont; Hélène Gauthier; Stéphane Culine

doi:10.1159/000523822

Case Reports in Oncology (Aug 2022)

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation with Enhanced Fibrinolysis Caused by Heart Metastasis of Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma

Clara Helal,
Tiphaine Lambert,
Bérangère S. Joly,
Clément Dumont,
Hélène Gauthier,
Stéphane Culine

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Clara Helal: Department of Medical Oncology, Saint-Louis Hospital, AP-HP.Nord – Université de Paris, Paris, France
Tiphaine Lambert: ORCiD; Department of Medical Oncology, Saint-Louis Hospital, AP-HP.Nord – Université de Paris, Paris, France
Bérangère S. Joly: Department of Biological Hematology, Lariboisière Hospital, AP-HP.Nord – Université de Paris, Paris, France
Clément Dumont: Department of Medical Oncology, Saint-Louis Hospital, AP-HP.Nord – Université de Paris, Paris, France
Hélène Gauthier: Department of Medical Oncology, Saint-Louis Hospital, AP-HP.Nord – Université de Paris, Paris, France
Stéphane Culine: Department of Medical Oncology, Saint-Louis Hospital, AP-HP.Nord – Université de Paris, Paris, France

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000523822
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 2
pp. 745 – 749

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Heart metastases from urothelial carcinoma of the bladder have rarely been reported in the literature. We present a case complicated by symptomatic disseminated intravascular coagulation in a 67-year-old woman. A rapid and sustained recovery from hemostatic troubles was obtained following fibrinogen supplementation combined with second-line paclitaxel chemotherapy.

Published in Case Reports in Oncology

ISSN: 1662-6575 (Online)
Publisher: Karger Publishers
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Website: http://www.karger.com/cro

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