Late onset radiation-induced constrictive pericarditis and cardiomyopathy after radiotherapy: A case report

INTRODUCTION: Radiation-induced heart disease (RIHD) is a serious side effect of cancer treatment, including coronary artery disease, valvular cardiac dysfunction, cardiomyopathy, aortopathy, and chronic constrictive pericarditis. Herein, this case we present was diagnosed as radiation-induced const...

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Autores principales: Zhuang, Xiao-feng, Yang, Yan-min, Sun, Xiao-lu, Liao, Zhong-kai, Huang, Jie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5293439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28151876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000005932
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Radiation-induced heart disease (RIHD) is a serious side effect of cancer treatment, including coronary artery disease, valvular cardiac dysfunction, cardiomyopathy, aortopathy, and chronic constrictive pericarditis. Herein, this case we present was diagnosed as radiation-induced constrictive pericarditis and cardiomyopathy by means of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and transthoracic echocardiogram, finally confirmed by pathology after performing heart transplant operation. CONCLUSIONS: This case supports a notion that RIHD often causes multiple heart impairment and CMR is helpful to diagnose cardiomyopathy after radiation.

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