(Source: American College of Cardiology Foundation) Patients with cancer have greatly improved survival with current chemotherapy and radiation therapies. This has resulted in many patients developing heart disease that may need to be diagnosed or treated in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. The following are key points to remember from this expert consensus document on management of cardio-oncology patients in the catheterization laboratory: In addition to known effects on ventricular function, certain chemotherapeutic agents may injure the vascular system, causing acute endothelial damage, abnormal vasoreactivity, vasospasm, and platelet activation and aggregation. Clinical...
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