Childhood Cancer Survivors: Screening Little Hearts for Big Problems

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Editorial

Ming Hui Chen. JACC CardioOncol. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 17;2(1):38-40.

doi: 10.1016/j.jaccao.2020.02.015. eCollection 2020 Mar.

¹ Departments of Cardiology and Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: cancer survivorship; cardiomyopathy; children; echocardiography; pediatrics.

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Longitudinal Changes in Echocardiographic Parameters of Cardiac Function in Pediatric Cancer Survivors.
Border WL, Sachdeva R, Stratton KL, Armenian SH, Bhat A, Cox DE, Leger KJ, Leisenring WM, Meacham LR, Sadak KT, Sivanandam S, Nathan PC, Chow EJ. Border WL, et al. JACC CardioOncol. 2020 Mar;2(1):26-37. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccao.2020.02.016. Epub 2020 Mar 17. JACC CardioOncol. 2020. PMID: 32719829 Free PMC article.

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