The literature exploring the utility of advanced echocardiographic techniques (such as
deformation imaging) in the diagnosis and prognostication of patients receiving potentially …

Echocardiographic imaging is ideally suited for the evaluation of cardiac mechanics
because of its intrinsically dynamic nature. Because for decades, echocardiography has …

Cancer and cardiovascular (CV) disease are the most prevalent diseases in the developed
world. Evidence increasingly shows that these conditions are interlinked through common …

Background—Because cancer patients survive longer, the impact of cardiotoxicity
associated with the use of cancer treatments escalates. The present study investigates …

Anthracyclines are highly effective chemotherapeutic agents, used for a wide variety of
malignancies. Cardiotoxicity is a well‑recognized side effect of anthracycline therapy that …

The authors summarize the recent developments in speckle-tracking echocardiography
(STE), a relatively new technique that can be used in conjunction with two-dimensional or …

Cardiac dysfunction resulting from exposure to cancer therapeutics was first recognized in
the 1960s, with the widespread introduction of anthracyclines into the oncological …

As breast cancer survival increases, cardiotoxicity associated with chemotherapeutic
regimens such as anthracyclines and trastuzumab becomes a more significant issue …

Objectives: To compare a steady-state free precession cine sequence–based technique
(feature tracking [FT]) to tagged harmonic phase (HARP) analysis for peak average …

Background—Pregnancy provides a unique model to study the adaptation of the heart in a
physiological situation of transient load changes. The aim of this study was to assess the …