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Sleep Apnea Prevalence in Cardio-Oncology Patients Similar to Other Risk Factors

HCPLive

Sleep apnea prevalence in cardiology patients was similar to the rates in patients with heart failure., and sleep apnea prevalence in cardio-oncology patients was the same or greater than other traditional risk factors.

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

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Objectives This study aimed to identify the incidence of early cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD) and the behaviours of left and right heart deformations during trastuzumab chemotherapy in low- and moderate-risk patients. 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

Patients with recurrent or advanced-stage breast cancer, with a history of heart failure, receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy or a preoperative history of less than 6 months were excluded. Results We identified 12 060 eligible patients (mean age 50.8±8.56 years) between January 2010 and December 2019. preoperative, 66.0%