What is it about?
A manual covering several major aspects of Cardiooncology. The book is divided into five main chapters including the current knowledge about epidemiology of the problem, the mechanisms and drugs associated with cardiac toxicity, the primary and secondary malignant cardiac tumors, the diagnostic imaging approaches, the management strategies, and the Cardiooncology discipline, which is a medical subspecialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in cancer patients.
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Why is it important?
Cancer patients may have a larg variety of cardiac problems both related to or independent from antineoplastic therapies. They may be seen no only in specialized cardio-oncology clinics, but also by cardiologists in general hospitals, in the emergency departments, and by the general practitioner. This practical, problem-oriented, manual of cardio-oncology suggests to all these physicians (who don't see regularly a large number of cancer patients) the best practical appraoch for assessing and treating several problems: cardiotoxicity, severe elecrolyte imbalances, throsmboembolism, arrhythmias, cardiac ischemia, neoplatic pericardial disease and so on. Specific chapters are devoted to the problem of malignant cardiac tumors, to the follow-up of long-term survivors (mostly of children and of patients treated with radiation therapy), and to the communication between cardiologists, oncologists and general prectitioners.
Perspectives
I hope that this book will be helpful for all the physicians who need to cope with a patient with problems seldom reported in the cardiology texts. Some events are rather rare outside large referral cancer centers (severe hypercalcemia, casual detection of a cardiac mass potentially a malignant tumor, thromboembolism or acute coronary syndrome in a patient with low or very low platelet count, for instance). This book, written by authors with wide experience in the field of cardio-oncology, gives a practical guide to the best approach to these challenging situations.
Dr Chiara Lestuzzi
CRO, National Cancer Institute, Aviano (PN)
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This page is a summary of: Manual of Cardio-oncology, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40236-9.
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