Increased C-reactive protein is associated with the severity of thoracic radiotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy.
Justin M CanadaGeorgia K ThomasCory R TrankleSalvatore CarboneHayley BillingsleyBenjamin W Van TassellRonald K EvansRyan GartenElisabeth WeissAntonio AbbatePublished in: Cardio-oncology (London, England) (2020)
Elevated systemic inflammation is associated with impaired left-ventricular systolic and diastolic function both at rest and during exercise in subjects who have received radiotherapy with significant incidental heart dose for the treatment of cancer.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- early stage
- blood pressure
- locally advanced
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- acute myocardial infarction
- radiation therapy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- radiation induced
- left atrial
- mitral valve
- aortic stenosis
- papillary thyroid
- spinal cord
- high intensity
- diabetic rats
- high glucose
- atrial fibrillation
- physical activity
- squamous cell carcinoma
- drug induced
- childhood cancer
- ejection fraction
- young adults
- spinal cord injury
- lymph node metastasis
- smoking cessation