Publication: The relationship between anemia and recurrence of ischemic stroke in patients with Trousseau-s syndrome: A retrospective cross-sectional study
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2016-06-01
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YİĞİT, MEHMET
SÖĞÜT, ÖZGÜR
YİĞİT, EDA
TÜRKDOĞAN, KENAN AHMET
KAPLAN, ONUR
DUR, ALİ
SÖNMEZ, ERTAN
DEMİREL, BULUT
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Objectives: The relationship between cancer and thrombosis was first recognized by the French internist Armand Trousseau in 1865. Trousseau's syndrome is a spectrum of symptoms that result from recurrent thromboembolism associated with cancer or malignancy-related hypercoagulability. In this study, we investigated whether demographics, clinical features, or laboratory findings were able to predict recurrent stroke episodes in patients with Trousseau's syndrome.
Methods: In total, 178 adult patients were enrolled in this retrospective cross-sectional study. All patients had been admitted to the emergency room of our hospital between January 2011 and September 2014 and were diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke. Patients were divided into two groups: patients with malignancy (Trousseau's syndrome), and patients without malignancy.
Results: There were several significant differences between the laboratory results of the two patient groups. For patients with Trousseau's, the hemoglobin levels for those with one stroke was 12.29 ± 1.81, while those in patients who had experienced more than one stroke was 10.94 ± 2.14 (p = 0.004).
Conclusions: Trousseau's syndrome is a cancer-associated coagulopathy associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. In this study, anemia was associated with increased stroke recurrence in patients with malignancy (Trousseau's syndrome).
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YİĞİT M., SÖĞÜT Ö., YİĞİT E., TÜRKDOĞAN K. A. , KAPLAN O., DUR A., SÖNMEZ E., DEMİREL B., -The relationship between anemia and recurrence of ischemic stroke in patients with Trousseau-s syndrome: A retrospective cross-sectional study-, Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine, cilt.16, ss.65-68, 2016