Cardiotoxicity of antineoplastic agents: what is the present and future role for imaging?
Curr Oncol Rep
; 16(8): 396, 2014.
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| ID: mdl-24992733
ABSTRACT
As antineoplastic treatment options expand at an increasing rate, both traditional and novel agents continue to be limited by their cardiotoxic effects. While functional decline becomes clinically apparent at late states of toxicity, little is known about early stages during which treatment or prevention may still be an option. Several imaging modalities,including echocardiography, multiple gated acquisition, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging have the ability to identify cardiac effects before they produce clinical symptoms.Here we discuss the current and future role of cardiac imaging in the assessment of cardiotoxicity of antineoplastic agents. effects on cardiac tissue, resulting in myocardial cellular damage,and ultimately lead to a wide range of effects including electrophysiological abnormalities, symptomatic heart failure(HF), and even death. This represents a limiting factor in the therapy of several otherwise treatable neoplasms [2].The cardiotoxicity of antineoplastic agents raises several important questions regarding the actual prevalence of cardiac toxicity, the ability to effectively treat or prevent such effects with pharmaceutical interventions, and the availability of a means for early diagnosis. Here, we focus on the latter, specifically examining current and potential future imaging strategies to detect the cardiac effects of chemotherapeutic agents.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Técnicas de Imagem Cardíaca
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Cardiopatias
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Antineoplásicos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Article