Heart Views (Jan 2018)

Radiation-induced coronary artery disease in young patients

  • Christina Rodriguez Ruiz,
  • Marcel Mesa-Pabón,
  • Katherine Soto,
  • José Hernández Román,
  • Angel López-Candales

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_64_17
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 1
pp. 23 – 26

Abstract

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Exposure to radiotherapy has been shown to accelerate myocardial damage or injury to the cardiac vasculature. Accelerated coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the main manifestations of cardiac disease in patients who undergo mediastinal radiation therapy. We present the cases of three young patients who developed severe CAD secondary to remote mediastinal radiotherapy.

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