Population
33-year-old man with colon cancer presenting with acute shortness of breath and evolving ST segment changes…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
1 week
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Suggests potential reversibility of 5-FU cardiotoxicity with early intervention; hypothesis-generating, insufficient to change practice.
5-fluorouracil cardiotoxicity can present as severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction, which is potentially completely reversible with early recognition, cessation of the offending agent, and appropriate medical therapy.
Iskandar et al. (2015) studied this question.
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