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The paper highlights the current understanding of radiotherapy-induced heart diseases and the importance of modern imaging technologies to verify myocardial pathomorphological changes causing heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.
Case Report (n=1)
This case highlights the importance of multimodality imaging, including speckle tracking echocardiography and cardiac MRI, for the late diagnosis of radiation-induced restrictive cardiomyopathy in cancer survivors.
The article presents the current understanding of the problem of radiation therapy (RT)-induced heart diseases. The paper is based on a clinical case of restrictive cardiomyopathy in a female previously cured of Hodgkin's lymphoma with RT. The importance of using modern imaging technologies aimed at verifying pathomorphological changes in the myocardium that cause the development of heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction is reflected. The given clinical case shows the combination of visceral complications arising in the long term after RT in oncohematological patients.
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Барсуков et al. (2022) conducted a case report in Radiation therapy-induced heart disease (n=1). Radiation therapy was evaluated on Restrictive cardiomyopathy and heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.
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