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Caleb R Matthews1, Mackenzie Madison1, Chen Zhang2, Joshua Waters3, Jose P Garcia1, Daniel Beckman1.
Abstract
We present a rare case of thrombosis associated with an occult colon malignancy (Trousseau syndrome) in a 25-year-old woman who also presented with previously unidentified Lynch syndrome and acute-on-chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Staged treatment included bilateral pulmonary endarterectomy under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest, followed 11 days later by laparoscopic subtotal colectomy and creation of a primary anastomosis. The patient tolerated both procedures well and recovered normal functional status. Final pathologic analysis of the resected colon mass revealed a pT3N0, stage IIA adenocarcinoma; no adjuvant therapy was administered. At her one-year follow-up visit, the patient was cancer-free, remained on lifelong apixaban anticoagulation, and was undergoing routine monitoring and genetic counseling. This case highlights the need for multidisciplinary management of a patient with severe chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and a concomitant malignancy.Entities:
Keywords: Chronic disease/therapy; Lynch syndrome; colectomy; endarterectomy; hypertension, pulmonary/diagnosis/therapy; neoplasms/complications/surgery/therapy; pulmonary artery/physiopathology/surgery; pulmonary embolism/complications/diagnosis/physiopathology/surgery; risk factors; talc/adverse effects; thrombosis/etiology/therapy; venous thromboembolism/etiology/therapy
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Year: 2022 PMID: 35648447 PMCID: PMC9242637 DOI: 10.14503/THIJ-20-7419
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tex Heart Inst J ISSN: 0730-2347