Bevacizumab for glioblastoma multiforme after traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage

J Clin Neurosci. 2012 Sep;19(9):1310-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2011.11.027. Epub 2012 Jun 19.

Abstract

We present a patient with a glioblastoma multiforme treated with bevacizumab who suffered a traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Trascranial doppler revealed no evidence of vasoconstriction, which has been previously described in a bevacizumab-treated patient. Bevacizumab was resumed five weeks after the SAH without recurrence of bleeding or vasoconstriction. To our knowledge this is the first report of resumption of bevacizumab after SAH.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors / therapeutic use*
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized / therapeutic use*
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating / therapeutic use
  • Bevacizumab
  • Brain Neoplasms / complications
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Dacarbazine / analogs & derivatives
  • Dacarbazine / therapeutic use
  • Glioblastoma / complications
  • Glioblastoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Glioblastoma / drug therapy*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Traumatic / complications*
  • Temozolomide
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial

Substances

  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
  • Bevacizumab
  • Dacarbazine
  • Temozolomide