ABSTRACT
Both cancer treatment and survival have significantly improved, but these advances have highlighted the deleterious effects of vascular complications associated with anticancer therapy. This consensus document aims to provide a coordinated, multidisciplinary and practical approach to the stratification, monitoring and treatment of cardiovascular risk in cancer patients. The document is promoted by the Working Group on Cardio Oncology of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC) and was drafted in collaboration with experts from distinct areas of expertise of the SEC and the Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy (SEHH), the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM), the Spanish Society of Radiation Oncology (SEOR), the Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians (SEMG), the Spanish Association of Specialists in Occupational Medicine (AEEMT), the Spanish Association of Cardiovascular Nursing (AEEC), the Spanish Heart Foundation (FEC), and the Spanish Cancer Association (AECC).
Subject(s)
Cardiology , Cardiovascular Diseases , Hematology , Neoplasms , Radiation Oncology , Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology , Cardiovascular Diseases/etiology , Cardiovascular Diseases/therapy , Consensus , Heart Disease Risk Factors , Humans , Medical Oncology , Neoplasms/complications , Neoplasms/epidemiology , Neoplasms/therapy , Risk FactorsSubject(s)
COVID-19/diagnostic imaging , Heart Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Heart Diseases/virology , Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome/diagnostic imaging , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Immunoglobulins, Intravenous/therapeutic use , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Male , SARS-CoV-2/pathogenicity , Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome/drug therapy , Treatment Outcome , COVID-19 Drug TreatmentABSTRACT
Neonates and small infants have unique characteristics that make it possible to obtain echocardiographic views that are inaccessible in older patients. A high transsternal approach through the cartilaginous sternum and the thymus gland allows visualisation of a short-axis view of the pulmonary valve. This view should be included as part of routine protocols for echocardiographic examinations performed in this age group.
