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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kaier TE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4543115 | biostudies-other | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
BMJ case reports 20120625
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common finding in patients with underlying malignancy and is the commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale. A 65-year-old woman with a background of non-small-cell lung cancer presented to the emergency department with nausea and vomiting after starting erlotinib; she was pyrexial and had raised C-reactive protein. Despite aggressive fluid resuscitation and antibiotics the patient remained tachycardic, hypotensive, profoundly hypoxic and had a persistent raised jugular ...[more]