Medical Oncology

Neurohospitalist

Questions discussed in this category

Do you typically use NOACs or Lovenox in patients with stroke due to hypercoagulability from malignancy?

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What are some alternatives to dexamethasone for brain edema in patients who are allergic, have an intolerance, or refuse the medication?

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Is there a role to continue aspirin in patients with myeloproliferative disorders who have never had a thrombotic event that are starting DOAC for stroke prophylaxis with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation?

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How would you approach evaluation and treatment of a patient on pembrolizumab therapy who presents with symmetric, proximal, upper extremity and lower extremity painful weakness without an elevated CK?

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What is the best course of action for a patient with isolated carcinomatous meningitis who is responding well to intrathecal methotrexate but now has MRI findings suspicious for methotrexate leukoencephalopathy?

Can intrathecal methotrexate be continued with close neurologic observation vs switch in treatment now due to findings?

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In women of childbearing age with NMDA encephalitis and normal pelvic imaging, is there a role for oophorectomy for possible microteratoma?

If not, how often do you repeat pelvic imaging?

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Papers discussed in this category

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 1993-03

Randomized prospective comparison of intraventricular methotrexate and thiotepa in patients with previously untreated neoplastic meningitis. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group.

Cancer, 2011 Feb 01

Boswellia serrata acts on cerebral edema in patients irradiated for brain tumors: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind pilot trial.

The New England journal of medicine, 2018-02-15

Edoxaban for the Treatment of Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism.

N Engl J Med, 2020 Mar 29

Apixaban for the Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism Associated with Cancer.

N Engl J Med, 2003 Jul 10

Low-molecular-weight heparin versus a coumarin for the prevention of recurrent venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer.

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