https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2013.91

Tamoxifen treatment and pulmunary embolism: a case report and literature review

Vol. 80 No. 1 (2013): Cardiac series
Submitted: November 25, 2015
Accepted: November 25, 2015
Published: November 25, 2015
thrombosis, tamoxifen, pulmunary embolism
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Gregoriana Zanini
gregoriana.zanini@aod.it
U.O. C. Cardiologia/UTIC, Ospedale La Memoria di Gavardo (Brescia), Italy.
Benedetta Fontanella
U.O. C. Cardiologia/UTIC, Ospedale La Memoria di Gavardo (Brescia), Italy.
Marco Racheli
U.O. C. Cardiologia/UTIC, Ospedale La Memoria di Gavardo (Brescia), Italy.
Monica Bortolotti
U.O. C. Cardiologia/UTIC, Ospedale La Memoria di Gavardo (Brescia), Italy.
Gianfranco Pasini
U.O. C. Cardiologia/UTIC, Ospedale La Memoria di Gavardo (Brescia), Italy.
Breast carcinoma is becoming a spread disease that needs a specif teraphy. Tamoxifen is the first line treatment in patients with positivity of expression of estrogen receptors. The risk of thromboembolism is high in patients treated with tamoxifene indipendent from the neoplastic disease. This work focuses the attention on tamoxifen mechanism of thrombosis.

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Zanini, Gregoriana, Benedetta Fontanella, Marco Racheli, Monica Bortolotti, and Gianfranco Pasini. 2015. “Tamoxifen Treatment and Pulmunary Embolism: A Case Report and Literature Review”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 80 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2013.91.

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