Cardiac Sympathetic Hyperactivity after Chemotherapy: Early Sign of Cardiotoxicity?

Background:Chemotherapy with anthracyclines and trastuzumab can cause cardiotoxicity. Alteration of cardiac adrenergic function assessed by metaiodobenzylguanidine labeled with iodine-123 (123I-mIBG) seems to precede the drop in left ventricular ejection fraction.Objective:To evaluate and to compare the presence of cardiovascular abnormalities among patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy with anthracyclines and trastuzumab, and only with anthracycline.Methods:Patients with breast cancer were analyzed clinical, laboratory, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic and cardiac sympathetic activity. In scintigraphic images, the ratio of 123I-mIBG uptake between the heart and mediastinum, and the washout rate were calculated. The variables were compared between patients who received anthracyclines and trastuzumab (Group 1) and only anthracyclines (Group 2).Results:Twenty patients, with mean age 57 ± 14 years, were studied. The mean left ventricular ejection fraction by echocardiography was 67.8 ± 4.0%. Mean washout rate was 28.39 ± 9.23% and the ratio of 123I-mIBG uptake between the heart and mediastinum was 2.07 ± 0.28. Of the patients, 82% showed an increased in washout rate, and the ratio of 123I-mIBG uptake between the heart and mediastinum decreased in 25%. Concerning the groups, the mean washout rate of Group 1 was 32.68 ± 9.30% and of Group 2 was 24.56 ± 7.72% (p = 0,06). The ratio of 123I-mIBG uptake between the heart and mediastinum was normal in all patients in Group 2, however, the Group 1, showed 50% the ratio of 123I-mIBG uptake between the heart and mediastinum ≤ 1.8 (p = 0.02).Conclusion:In women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy, assessment of cardiac sympathetic activity with 123I-mIBG appears to be an early marker of cardiotoxicity. The combination of chemotherapy showed higher risk of cardiac adrenergic hyperactivity.

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Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. F.V. Hayden, United States geologist in charge ... [Final reports or monographs. vol. I]-III, V-XIII.

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Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. F.V. Hayden, United States geologist in charge ... [Final reports or monographs. vol. I]-III, V-XIII.

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Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. F.V. Hayden, United States geologist in charge ... [Final reports or monographs. vol. I]-III, V-XIII.

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Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. F.V. Hayden, United States geologist in charge ... [Final reports or monographs. vol. I]-III, V-XIII.

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Glomevella cingulata (Stonem.) spauld. et v. schrenk. F. SP. phaseoli N.F., fase ascógena do agente causal da antracnose do feijoeiro

O presente trabalho versa sobre a obtenção da fase perfeita de Colletotriohum lindemuthianum (Sacc. et Magn.) Scrib., dirimindo duvidas quanto a sua existência, suscitada pelo primeiro relato feito por SHEAR e WOOD (1913). Após ter encontrado duas linhagens heterotálicas que formaram ascosporos em acasalamentos, os autores estudaram alguns fatores ambientais que favorecem a reprodução sexuada, chegando-se as seguintes conclusões: peritecios se formaram sobre varios meios de cultura semi-sintéticos em cuja composição entram glucose, Ca(N0(3))2.4H(2)0(, MgSO4.7H2O e KH2PO4, agar e água; a quantidade de glucose deve ser igual ou maior do que 4g/l, a de Ca(NO3)2.4H2O de 0,15 a 0,60 g/l e a relação C/N deve estar entre 29,8 a 89,6:1; a adição de vitaminas alterou levemente o nível de aproveitamento de Ca(NO3)2.4H2O, nao havendo boa produção de peritécio ao nível de 0,15 g/l mas permitindo-se ate o nível de 1 g/l, mantendo-se as relações C/N mais ou menos no mesmo nivel; a luz, nos estágios final ou inicial ou em períodos alternados acima de 8 horas, inibiu a formação de ascosporos, sendo, portanto, essencial a escuridão contínua; peritécios se formaram sob condições de pH variável de 4,0 a 6,0; peritécios ejetam ascosporos em condições de alta umidade; a temperatura em que foram obtidos os peritécios foi sempre de 209C. Do acasalamento de linhagens conidiais de C.lindemuthianum o autor obteve resultados a priori comparáveis aos de trabalhos genéticos feitos com G.cingulata, chegando-se a conclusão de que as linhagens usadas sao heterotãlicas possivelmente condicionadas por varios fatores genéticos. Isolamentos ascospóricos foram inoculados, sendo todos patogênicos ao feijoeiro, pelo menos para a variedade Michelite. Comparando morfológicamente a fase ascogena de C.lindemuthvanwn com G.cvngulata, o autor propõe o nome de Glomerelia cingulata (Stonem.) Spauld et v. Schrenk f.phaseoli n.f.