[Non-infectious respiratory emergencies in patients with cancer]

Abstract

Patients with a solid tumor or hematologic malignancy are often addressed to emergency units for an acute respiratory complication associated with the underlying cancer or secondary to treatments. The current article is part of a thematic series: "Intensive care and emergencies in solid tumours and blood cancer patients" and will develop the following points: (1) malignant proximal airway obstruction and, more specifically, the role of therapeutic bronchoscopy; (2) superior vena cava syndrome by tumor compression and/or secondary to thrombosis (diagnosis, local and systemic treatments); (3) cancer-related pulmonary embolism (incidence, indications for low-molecular weight heparins and direct oral anticoagulants). Other respiratory emergencies will be dealt in the other articles of this series.

Keywords: Bronchoscopie thérapeutique; Cancer; Central airway obstruction; Embolie pulmonaire; Obstruction des voies aériennes proximales; Pulmonary embolism; Superior vena cava syndrome; Syndrome cave supérieur; Therapeutic bronchoscopy.