Key result
A clinical case review highlights the challenges and need for effective and safe preoperative thromboprophylaxis in cancer surgery patients with impaired renal function and increased bleeding risk.
Why the study?
Cancer patients face high mortality from VTE alongside challenges like impaired kidney function and bleeding risk, creating a need for safer and more effective thromboprophylaxis around surgical interventions.
This review highlights the challenges and need for effective and safe VTE prophylaxis in cancer surgery patients with impaired renal function.
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Thromboprophylaxis selection remains challenging in renally impaired cancer surgery patients; leaves open optimal regimens balancing thrombosis and bleeding risks.
Despite notable progress in the prevention of venous thromboembolic complications (VTE) and its widespread use in recent decades, mortality in cancer patients from VTE is still second only to the main disease. Some features and limitations in cancer patients, such as a decrease in kidney function and platelet count, an increased risk of bleeding, and the difficulty of monitoring the adequacy and safety of thromboprophylaxis, as well as the use of aggressive chemotherapy, determine the need for more effective and safer ways to solve the problem of VTE. Also, in the case of surgical interventions in such patients, the need for preoperative thromboprophylaxis raises new challenges for doctors. The article presents a review of the issue using a clinical case.
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Katelnitskaya et al. (2024) conducted a review in Venous thromboembolic complications in cancer surgery patients with impaired renal function. Thromboprophylaxis was evaluated. A clinical case review highlights the challenges and need for effective and safe preoperative thromboprophylaxis in cancer surgery patients with impaired renal function and increased bleeding risk.
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