Related Articles Caring Advanced Cancer Patients at Home During COVID-19 Outbreak: Burnout and Psychological Morbidity Among Palliative Care Professionals in Italy. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 02;61(2):e4-e12 Authors: Varani S, Ostan R, Franchini L, Ercolani G, Pannuti R, Biasco G, Bruera E Abstract CONTEXT: Providing palliative care (PC) at home for patients with advanced cancer has become essential during the COVID-19 emergency. Nevertheless, the home PC professionals (PCPs) faced a challenging situation because of increased number of discharged patients, reduced availability of health-care facilities, and physical/relational barriers between them and patients. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the impact of…
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Related Articles [The Efficacy of Endoscopic Esophageal Stent Placement for Malignant Esophageal Stenosis]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2020 Dec;47(13):2177-2179 Authors: Ishikawa A, Sugiyama T, Mori Y, Urano N, Kominami H, Higuchi I, Hasuike Y Abstract Malignant esophageal stenosis adversely affects the quality of life(QOL)on account of poor oral intake. Endoscopic esophageal stenting is one of palliative therapy for improve QOL because of minimally invasive and simple procedure. We investigated the outcomes of esophageal stenting in our institution. Twenty patients with malignant esophageal stenosis who underwent esophageal stenting in our institution between April 2014 and December 2019 were included in this…
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Related Articles [Two Cases of Unresectable Gastric Cancer Where Bleeding Was Controlled by Radiation]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2020 Dec;47(13):2364-2366 Authors: Hamasaki T, Takeda S, Iida M, Kanekiyo S, Nishiyama M, Nakashima C, Shindo Y, Tokumitsu Y, Tomochika S, Yoshida S, Suzuki N, Hazama S, Yoshino S, Ioka T, Nagano H Abstract Case 1: The patient was a 74-year-old man with a performance status(PS)of 0. He was referred to our department for pyloric gastric cancer with multiple liver, lung, and lymph node metastases. We started chemotherapy after making the diagnosis of an unresectable gastric cancer. During chemotherapy, the hemoglobin level…
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Related Articles Palliative Operations for Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease with Severely Asymmetrical Pulmonary Arteries. Heart Lung Circ. 2020 May;29(5):780-784 Authors: He Y, Yang Y, Zhu Y, Li Z, Su J, Xu Y, Fan X, Liu Y, Fan X Abstract BACKGROUND: Surgically managing patients with complex congenital heart disease and severely asymmetrical pulmonary arteries is challenging. Here, we report our experience using combined palliative procedures. METHOD: The medical records of 28 patients with complex congenital heart disease and severely asymmetrical pulmonary arteries who underwent combined palliative procedures between January 2004 and April 2013 were retrospectively reviewed until January 2018. The patients…
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Related Articles Effectiveness of palliative care consultation service on caregiver burden over time between terminally ill cancer and non-cancer family caregivers. Support Care Cancer. 2020 Dec;28(12):6045-6055 Authors: Wu LF, Lin C, Hung YC, Chang LF, Ho CL, Pan HH Abstract PURPOSE: The responsibility of taking care of terminal patients is accepted as a role of family members in Taiwan. Only a few studies have focused on the effect of palliative care consultation service (PCCS) on caregiver burden between terminal cancer family caregivers (CFCs) and non-cancer family caregivers (NCFCs). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to address the effect of…
Origen: Effectiveness of palliative care consultation service on caregiver burden over time between terminally ill cancer and non-cancer family caregivers. – PubMed