Shingo Seo, Aki Kuwada, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Yuta Kuhara, Ai Amioka, Naoki Murao, Akira Nakashima, Ryutaro Sakabe, Hiroshi Hotei, Ko Tahara, Sayako Nagata, Yoshihiro Dohi
The patient was a 72-year-old female. She had been taking rivaroxaban for chronic atrial fibrillation; however, she stopped taking it due to anemia and was hospitalized urgently. A contrast-enhanced computed tomography(CT)scan showed a 30 mm mass in the ascending colon, and a colonoscopy revealed ascending colon cancer(cT3, cN0, cM0, cStage Ⅱa). The tumor was hemorrhagic and was thought to have caused the anemia. On day 6 of hospitalization, another contrast- enhanced CT scan showed a poorly contrast-enhanced area in the left atrium, and transesophageal echocardiography revealed 2 left atrial thrombi(27 mm and 17 mm)...
December 2023: Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer & Chemotherapy