• Gan To Kagaku Ryoho · Nov 2014

    Case Reports

    [A case of ARDS after esophagectomy treated with low-dose steroid therapy].

    • Shoichiro Hikami, Atsushi Shiozaki, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Hirotaka Konishi, Ryo Morimura, Yasutoshi Murayama, Shuhei Komatsu, Yoshiaki Kuriu, Hisashi Ikoma, Takeshi Kubota, Masayoshi Nakanishi, Akio Kimura, Daisuke Ichikawa, Kazuma Okamoto, Chouhei Sakakura, and Eigo Otsuji.
    • Dept. of Surgery, Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine.
    • Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2014 Nov 1; 41 (12): 2381-3.

    AbstractA 48-year-old woman was found to have an esophageal cancer, and after preoperative chemotherapy with cisplatin (CDDP)/5-fluorouracil (5-FU), radical subtotal esophagectomy was performed. On the fifth day after surgery, her respiratory condition suddenly worsened and a chest radiograph showed low permeability in both lung fields, leading to a diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and intubation for mechanical ventilation. Since clinical examination did not detect signs of infection on the seventh day, we began administering hydrocortisone at a dose of 300 mg. Her inflammatory response and respiratory condition improved by the next day and the dose of hydrocortisone was gradually reduced. The patient was extubated on the 13th day, administration of steroids was halted on the 22nd day, and she was discharged from the hospital on the 26th day. ARDS remains a refractory disease and no drug has proven to be effective in randomized controlled trials. The use of steroids for ARDS management remains controversial. Our present case suggests that low-dose steroids from an early stage in uninfected ARDS patients may improve prognosis.

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