CASE STUDY OF USE OF NONINVASIVE HEMODYNAMIC DOPPLER MONITORING IN HYPERTHERMIC INFUSED LIMB PERFUSION

Author's Name: Ana Cvetkovic, Vera Vojinovic Golubovic, Srdjan Nikolic, Igor Djurisic, Igor Spurnic & Ljubica Mitrovic Jacimovic
Subject Area: Health Science
Subject Medicine and Dentistry
Section Informative Article

Keyword:

HILP, hemodynamic, Cardio Q, melanoma.


Abstract

Hypothermic Infused Limb Perfusion (HILP) is treatment used for patients with metastatic melanoma of extremities witch consist of delivering high concentrations of cytostatic drug to cancer of affected limb and at the same time avoiding systemic side effects of cytotoxic drug. Potentially life-threatening complication of this procedure is acute hypovolemia as outcome of fluid shift between vascular compartment of isolated limb and the systematic vascular compartment

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