ACUTE ANTHRACYCLINE INDUCED CARDIOTOXICITY: A RARE AND REVERSIBLE CAUSE OF ACUTE SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE

Hoyle Whiteside,Arun Nagabandi,Amudhan Jyothidasan,Kristen Brown,John W. Thornton

ACUTE ANTHRACYCLINE INDUCED CARDIOTOXICITY: A RARE AND REVERSIBLE CAUSE OF ACUTE SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE

2018

Hoyle Whiteside
Arun Nagabandi
Amudhan Jyothidasan
Kristen Brown
John W. Thornton

Chronic anthracycline induced cardiotoxicity (AIC) is a type 1 chemotherapeutic cardiotoxicity characterized by irreversible myocyte destruction and necrosis. Although rare, acute AIC is characterized by a transient decline in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and does not appear to be dose

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Myocyte
Acute systolic heart failure
Necrosis
Anthracycline
Diabetes mellitus
Internal medicine
Cardiology
Ejection fraction
Cardiotoxicity
Medicine
anthracycline induced cardiotoxicity

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