The Role of Echocardiography in the Cancer Patient.
Nicolas L PalaskasJuan Lopez-MatteiPublished in: Current cardiology reports (2020)
In addition to myocardial strain imaging being a predictor of subsequent left ventricular dysfunction, it can be used for pattern recognition to help identify patients with cardiac amyloidosis or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Echocardiography is essential for diagnosis and planning of intervention for aortic stenosis in radiation-induced valvular disease, for which transcutaneous aortic valve replacement that gives many cancer patients that are not surgical candidates an option for treatment. The safety of transesophageal echocardiography has recently been demonstrated in patients with cancer with thrombocytopenia and depleted white blood cell counts who are at increased risk of endocarditis. Echocardiography is an essential tool for evaluating common conditions in cancer patients such as pericardial disease, radiation-induced heart disease, and intracardiac tumors-with specific uses of specialized echocardiography techniques such as deformation imaging, transesophageal echocardiography, and point-of-care ultrasound.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- aortic stenosis
- radiation induced
- aortic valve replacement
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- heart failure
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- acute myocardial infarction
- mitral valve
- left atrial
- pulmonary hypertension
- radiation therapy
- aortic valve
- computed tomography
- randomized controlled trial
- high resolution
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- ejection fraction
- magnetic resonance imaging
- oxidative stress
- palliative care
- stem cells
- mass spectrometry
- coronary artery disease
- peripheral blood
- squamous cell