Different manifestation of irradiation induced coronary artery disease detected with coronary computed tomography compared with matched non-irradiated controls.
CONCLUSIONS: Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors treated with mediastinal irradiation with or without chemotherapy showed a higher presence, greater severity, larger extent and more proximally located CAD compared with age, gender and risk factor matched non-irradiated controls. These findings represent features of higher risk CAD and may explain the worse cardiovascular outcome after chest irradiation.
PMID: 28987749 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - Category: Radiology Authors: van Rosendael AR, Daniƫls LA, Dimitriu-Leen AC, Smit JM, van Rosendael PJ, Schalij MJ, Bax JJ, Scholte AJHA Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research
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