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Echocardiography and Cardio-Oncology

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posted on 2023-05-22, 03:55 authored by Tomoko Negishi, Miyazaki, S, Kazuaki Negishi
Owing to the ongoing increase in cancer survivors because of the remarkable and continuous progress in cancer management, a paradigm shift is occurring from cancer as a 'terminal illness' to a 'chronic condition' with cardiovascular risks. This also affects cardiology practice with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality rates among patients with cancer due to direct and/or indirect side effects of anticancer treatment. Thus, cardio-oncology has emerged as a new cardiology subspecialty, which focusses on risk stratification, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of cardiovascular disease related to cancer treatment. This review summarises echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac dysfunction and heart failure as they are the most concerning cardiovascular complications of cancer therapy and worsen its morbidity and mortality. This review covers cardiac function assessment and proposed cut-off values before/during/after cancer chemotherapy. The goal of this review is to aid clinicians to manage the patients with cancer sufficiently by connecting the existing knowledge in clinical cardiology with novel information from current advances in cardio-oncology.

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Publication title

Heart, Lung and Circulation

Volume

28

Issue

9

Pagination

1331-1338

ISSN

1443-9506

Department/School

Menzies Institute for Medical Research

Publisher

Elsevier Australia

Place of publication

Australia

Rights statement

© 2019 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons

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  • Restricted

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Clinical health not elsewhere classified

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