Articles: palliative-care.
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Review Case Reports
Palliative treatment of generalized metastatic follicular carcinoma of thyroid after operation: A case report and literature review.
Follicular carcinoma of thyroid is a rare pathological type of thyroid carcinoma, accounting for 4.5% of the total. At present, the main treatment methods include surgery, iodine therapy, thyroid hormone inhibitors, etc. Targeted drug therapy is very important for distant metastasis and iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer. ⋯ Late metastatic thyroid cancer is faced with dilemma of radioiodine refractory after traditional treatment. This will provide further evidence for therapeutic intervention in similar patients in the future.
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Prior assessments of critical care outcomes in patients with cirrhosis have shown conflicting results. We aimed to provide nationwide generalizable results of critical care outcomes in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. ⋯ One-third of patients with cirrhosis requiring critical care did not survive to discharge in this U.S. nationwide assessment. While outcomes were worse than in patients without cirrhosis, the results do suggest better outcomes compared to previous studies.
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Palliative medicine · May 2024
Symptom burden, service use and care dissatisfaction among older adults with cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, dementia and neurological disease during the last 3 months before death: A pooled analysis of mortality follow-back surveys.
Variation in the provision of care and outcomes in the last months of life by cancer and non-cancer conditions is poorly understood. ⋯ We showed different trajectories towards death depending on cause. Improving symptom burden and satisfaction in patients at the end-of-life is challenging, and the presence of a reliable key health professional may be helpful.