Cardiology

New Findings from University Hospital in the Area of Cardiology Described

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 5th, 2011

2011 JUL 5 -- In this recently published article, scientists in Louvain, Belgium conducted a study "To investigate the occurrence of early radiation-induced changes in regional cardiac function using strain rate imaging (SRI) by tissue Doppler echocardiography. We included 20 left-sided and 10 right-sided breast cancer patients receiving radiotherapy (RT) to the breast or chest wall."

"Standard echocardiography and SRI were performed before RT (baseline), immediately after RT (post-RT), and at 2 months follow-up (FUP) after RT. Regional strain (S) and strain rate (SR) values were obtained from all 18 left ventricular (LV) segments. Data were compared to...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-07-05)

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