Medium‐term assessment of cardiac function in pediatric cancer survivors. Comparison of different echocardiographic methods, cardiac MRI and cardiac biomarker testing in adolescent cancer survivors

• Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 250 - 256
• Main Authors: Shah, Sanket S., McClellan, Wendy, Knowlton, Joshua Q., Mehta, Jeet, Goudar, Suma, Ferguson, Angela, Sherman, Ashley, Shirali, Girish, Fulbright, Joy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2017
• Subjects: Adolescent; Biomarkers - blood; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; cardiac toxicity; Child; Child, Preschool; Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional - methods; Feasibility Studies; Heart - diagnostic imaging; Heart - physiopathology; Humans; Infant; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Natriuretic Peptide, Brain - blood; Neoplasms - blood; Peptide Fragments - blood; Survivors; three‐dimensional echocardiography , pediatric cancer survivor; Troponin I - blood; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; three-dimensional echocardiography , pediatric cancer survivor; cardiac toxicity
• ISSN: 0742-2822; 1540-8175; 1540-8175
• DOI: 10.1111/echo.13418

Purpose To evaluate the feasibility and correlation of 3D echocardiography (echo) and cardiac biomarkers with cardiac MRI, in surveillance of cardiac function for cancer survivors. Methods Subjects ≥10 years of age who have survived >2 years after completion of cancer treatment from a single cent...