Cardiac MRI-derived T2 mapping may help heart failure patients

In the study, Carlos Galan-Arriola, DVM, with the National Center for Cardiovascular Research in Madrid, and colleagues sought to identify early serial cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) markers of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity. Anthracycline is a popular class of chemotherapy drug and contributes to heart failure in up to 25 percent of patients. Galan-Arriola studied 15 pigs which were administered either three or five biweekly intracoronary doxorubicin doses and followed with CMR ex...

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