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Case Report

Supraventricular tachycardia and urticaria complicating leuprolide-induced ovarian suppression in a young woman with breast cancer: a case report

24 Jul 2013
Sharan Prakash Sharma, Franco Muggia

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists are used for gonadal suppression in the treatment of breast and prostate cancers. In older men, their use has occasionally been associated with cardiovascular side effects such as supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (SVTs). Several reports document their occurrence in men receiving leuprolide for prostate cancer. We now report this complication with concomitant occurrence of migratory trunk and extremity urticaria in a young woman receiving this treatment after diagnosis of a T1cN0 premenopausal breast cancer. Changing from leuprolide to another GnRH agonist, goserelin, no additional problems with SVT or accompanying urticaria were encountered during the nearly two years of treatment and three subsequent years of follow-up.

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