1. Die Funktion des Herzens unter postoperativer Hochvolttherapie bei Patientinnen mit linksseitigem Mammakarzinom
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M. Wehr, R. Prignitz, B. G. Rosskopf, P. M. Pittner, and D. Schwenk
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Ventricular function ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Postoperative radiation ,Mean age ,General Medicine ,Molecular medicine ,Surgery ,Mammary carcinoma ,Radiation therapy ,Systolic time intervals ,Internal medicine ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Cardiology ,Molecular Medicine ,business ,Genetics (clinical) ,Cardiac wall - Abstract
Systolic time intervals according the method of Weissler were measured in nine females (mean age: 55.1 years) with mammary carcinoma on the left, prior to, during and 3 months after postoperative radiation therapy. The average load to the anterior cardiac wall amounted to 36 Gy. We found a reversible statistically highly significant decrease of left ventricular function (increase of PEP/LVET) during radiation therapy, which seems to be related to a radiation-induced acute pancarditis known from animal experiments.
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- 1982
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