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European Society of Cardiology Core Curriculum for cardio?oncology

European Journal of Heart Failure

Abstract Cardio-oncology is a rapidly growing field of cardiovascular (CV) medicine that has resulted from the continuously increasing clinical demand for specialized CV evaluation, prevention and management of patients suffering or surviving from malignant diseases.

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Long-term Survivors of Childhood Cancer at Higher Risk of Death Following Heart Issues; Threshold for Treating Risk Factors Should be Lower

DAIC

The findings – published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology — could fuel advocacy for a paradigm shift in clinical heart health guidelines to address cardiovascular risk factors at an earlier age in childhood cancer survivors. “We

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Heart Failure Society of America issues cardio-oncology guidance: 5 things to know

Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

The Heart Failure Society of America has released a scientific statement outlining its insights on the link between heart failure and cancer, the two leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the U.S. 15 in the Journal of Cardiac Failure. The statement was published Oct.

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Features of trastuzumab-related cardiac dysfunction: deformation analysis outside left ventricular global longitudinal strain

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Background Cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction due to trastuzumab has been well-known for many years, and echocardiographic surveillance is recommended every 3 months in patients undergoing trastuzumab treatment, irrespective of the baseline cardiotoxicity risk. Results Twelve (10.9%) patients had asymptomatic CTRCD.

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Cardiotoxicity of adjuvant chemotherapy with trastuzumab: a Japanese claim-based data analysis

Open Heart

Objective Adjuvant chemotherapy with trastuzumab improves the postoperative life expectancy of women with early-stage breast cancer. Women with breast cancer who underwent initial surgery were included. Although trastuzumab is reportedly cardiotoxic, quantification based on real-world evidence is lacking. preoperative, 66.0%

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Atrioventricular re-entrant tachycardia and atrioventricular node re-entrant tachycardia in a patient with cancer under chemotherapy: a case report and literature review

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Cardio-oncology is a new field of interest in cardiology focusing on the detection and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, such as arrhythmias, myocarditis, and heart failure, as side-effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Here, we report a patient with new-onset AVRT/AVNRT and lung cancer who underwent chemotherapy.