Comparison of impedance cardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for the evaluation of cardiac function in early-stage breast cancer patients
Objective. Breast cancer treatment can negatively impact cardiac function in some breast cancer
patients. Current methods (MUGA, echocardiography) used in clinical practice to detect abnormal
cardiac changes as a result of treatment suffer from important limitations. Use of alternative
techniques that would offer safe, inexpensive and non-invasive cardiac function assessment in this
population would be highly advantageous. The aim of this study was to examine the agreement between
impedance cardiography (ICG) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) in quantifying stroke
volume (SV), cardiac output (CO) and end-diastolic volume (EDV) in this population. Approach.
Sixteen breast cancer patients underwent ICG and CMR assessments at three time-points (before
treatment, immediately after chemotherapy, and four months after chemotherapy). Bland –Altman
analysis was used to quantify the accuracy and precision of ICG (relative to CMR) in estimating
absolute values of ...
Source: Physiological Measurement - Category: Physiology Authors: Erifyli Piastopoulou, Parvaiz Ali, Gianfilippo Bertelli, Martyn Heatley, Maung Moe, Chandramohan Murugesan, Gareth Stratton and Michael Lewis Source Type: research
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