Superior vena cava syndrome complicated with acute pulmonary thromboembolism in a patient with lung cancer

Advances in the Prediction and Risk Assessment of Lung Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism

“…The authors showed that patients with regional and distant lymph node metastases had a significantly increased risk of developing VTE. In addition, oppression on blood vessels also posed a burden as described in a case reported by Chin et al, 31 a superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome was common in patients with malignant tumors (especially lung cancer). In patients presenting chest distress with persistent dyspnea after remission of facial and upper extremity edema, clinicians should be highly vigilant for PE.…”

The effect of refined nursing applied in the nursing room of thoracoscopic lung cancer radical operation in Southwestern China

“…According to the type of pathology, lung cancer can be divided into small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (Calado et al, 2017;Filippou et al, 2019;Hasan et al, 2019). The pathogenesis is not very clear, it may be caused by smoking, long-term exposure to air pollution, and exposure to carcinogens in occupations (Chin et al, 2017). At present, the effective method for clinical treatment of lung cancer is radical tumor surgery (Reymen et al, 2020).…”