Publications by authors named "Nisrine Acharfi"
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- * A case study is presented involving a 19-year-old patient who experienced chest pain, leading to the discovery of a right mediastinal mass with pleural effusion and swollen lymph nodes, diagnosed as a yolk sac non-seminomatous germ cell tumor.
- * Following biopsy results showing elevated alpha-fetoprotein levels, the patient underwent 4 cycles of chemotherapy with etoposide, ifosfamide, and platinum salts, followed by complete surgical removal
The world is facing the pandemic linked to COVID-19 virus infection that has rapidly spread worldwide, and severe complications have been reported to occur in around a third of patients. To date, there is no approved vaccine or specific therapy against COVID-19, but many trials are ongoing with some of them showing promising results. It has been shown recently that patients with cancer are at high risk of infection and they are more susceptible to develop severe events such as the necessity of invasive ventilation and death.
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