Takashi Hamada, Hiromichi Takahashi, Masaru Nakagawa, Hironao Nukariya, Shun Ito, Toshihide Endo, Kazuya Kurihara, Takashi Koike, Kazuhide Iizuka, Shimon Ohtake, Takashi Ichinohe, Toshiya Maebayashi, Katsuhiro Miura, Yoshihiro Hatta, Hideki Nakamura
Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) is an extremely rare condition in oncology practice. Although PVOD is clinically similar to pulmonary arterial hypertension, the conditions differ in terms of pathophysiology, management, and prognosis. This report discusses the case of a 47-year-old woman who developed dyspnea and fatigue after high-dose cyclophosphamide chemotherapy and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for relapsed lymphoma. The patient exhibited tachycardia, tachypnea, and hypotension, but other findings in the physical examination were unremarkable...
2023: Case Reports in Oncology