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Reversible Cancer Therapeutics-related Cardiac Dysfunction Complicating Intra-cardiac Thrombi.
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Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) [Intern Med] 2020 Sep 01; Vol. 59 (17), pp. 2155-2160. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 02. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Epirubicin-based chemotherapy carries a risk of inducing heart failure, although the frequency is rare. Bevacizumab, an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor monoclonal antibody, has recently been widely used in patients with recurrent breast cancer as a first-line chemotherapeutic agent. Heart failure or arterial thromboembolism has been reported as a rare cardiovascular complication of bevacizumab. We herein report a breast cancer patient with reversible cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction associated with bevacizumab and epirubicin complicating intracardiac thrombi in the left atrium and left ventricle. This case underscores the importance of tailored medical planning according to the individual status in patients receiving anti-cancer therapies.
- Subjects :
- Adrenergic beta-Antagonists therapeutic use
Aged
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors therapeutic use
Bevacizumab therapeutic use
Epirubicin therapeutic use
Female
Heart Failure physiopathology
Humans
Treatment Outcome
Antineoplastic Agents adverse effects
Antineoplastic Agents therapeutic use
Bevacizumab adverse effects
Breast Neoplasms drug therapy
Epirubicin adverse effects
Heart Failure chemically induced
Heart Failure drug therapy
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1349-7235
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 17
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 32493855
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.4792-20