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Detailed Echocardiographic Phenotyping in Breast Cancer Patients: Associations With Ejection Fraction Decline, Recovery, and Heart Failure Symptoms Over 3 Years of Follow-Up.
Circulation - 11 Apr 2017
Narayan Hari K, Finkelman Brian, French Benjamin, Plappert Theodore, Hyman David, Smith Amanda M, Margulies Kenneth B, Ky Bonnie
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BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease in patients with breast cancer is of growing concern. The longitudinal effects of commonly used therapies, including doxorubicin and trastuzumab, on cardiac remodeling and function remain unknown in this population. We aimed to define the changes in echocardiographic parameters of structure, function, and ventricular-arterial coupling, and their associations with left...
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