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Tissue Doppler imaging and conventional echocardiography after anthracycline treatment in adults: Early and late alterations of left ventricular function during a prospective study
- Source :
- European Journal of Echocardiography. 7:141-146
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2006.
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Abstract
- To evaluate the short and long-term effects of anthracycline chemotherapy in adults using conventional echocardiography and pulsed tissue Doppler imaging (TDI).Twenty patients were included of which 16 had a complete follow up. They underwent an echocardiography before chemotherapy, 1-3 months and 3.5+/-0.6 years after the treatment. We recorded pulsed TDI at the mitral annulus, the basal segments of the left ventricular (LV) lateral and posterior walls; peak velocities in systole (Sm), early (Em) and late diastole and the isovolumic relaxation time (IVRT) were measured. The cumulative dose of doxorubicin was 211+/-82 g/m2. Early after anthracycline therapy, we observed changes in the diastolic LV function with a decrease of the mitral E peak velocity and TDI Em. At the late control, diastolic changes were more pronounced and associated with an alteration of the systolic function (LV ejection fraction and Sm). Four patients had a LV ejection fraction50%; in these patients we observed a mitral annulus IVRT80 ms at the early control; this could be of interest to predict later impairment of the LV ejection fraction.We found early changes in LV diastolic function and observed that late impairment of the LV ejection fraction occurred frequently after anthracycline therapy, despite normal systolic LV function during the first months of follow-up.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Lymphoma
Anthracycline
Diastole
Breast Neoplasms
Doppler imaging
Statistics, Nonparametric
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Anthracyclines
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Prospective Studies
Systole
Prospective cohort study
Analysis of Variance
Leukemia
Ejection fraction
Cumulative dose
business.industry
General Medicine
Echocardiography, Doppler
Echocardiography
Cardiology
Female
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Isovolumic relaxation time
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15252167
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal of Echocardiography
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d4c7f7af52c1f8eee6b3546703761917
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euje.2005.04.009