Abstract
A 45-year old woman underwent a radical mastectomy in 1965 for carcinoma of the left breast with metastasis in the left axillar lymph nodes. Fifty per cent of the heart received 4,000 rads during postoperative X-ray therapy. Patient developed radiopneumonia and symptoms of acute pericarditis in 1967. Constrictive pericarditis developed gradually from 1972 on. A pericardiectomy was performed in June 1974 and a thickened pericardium could be removed. Light and electron microscopic examination of a surgical biopsy of the left ventricular epi-myocardium revealed epicardial fibrosis, interstitial fibrosis of the myocardium and perivascular fibrosis. The diagnosis of post-radiation pericarditis was made. The myocardial involvement may be responsible for the subsequent clinical course.
Citation Formats
Stroobandt, R, Knieriem, H J, De Wolf, L, and Joossens, J V.
Radiation-induced heart disease.
Belgium: N. p.,
1975.
Web.
Stroobandt, R, Knieriem, H J, De Wolf, L, & Joossens, J V.
Radiation-induced heart disease.
Belgium.
Stroobandt, R, Knieriem, H J, De Wolf, L, and Joossens, J V.
1975.
"Radiation-induced heart disease."
Belgium.
@misc{etde_7322854,
title = {Radiation-induced heart disease}
author = {Stroobandt, R, Knieriem, H J, De Wolf, L, and Joossens, J V}
abstractNote = {A 45-year old woman underwent a radical mastectomy in 1965 for carcinoma of the left breast with metastasis in the left axillar lymph nodes. Fifty per cent of the heart received 4,000 rads during postoperative X-ray therapy. Patient developed radiopneumonia and symptoms of acute pericarditis in 1967. Constrictive pericarditis developed gradually from 1972 on. A pericardiectomy was performed in June 1974 and a thickened pericardium could be removed. Light and electron microscopic examination of a surgical biopsy of the left ventricular epi-myocardium revealed epicardial fibrosis, interstitial fibrosis of the myocardium and perivascular fibrosis. The diagnosis of post-radiation pericarditis was made. The myocardial involvement may be responsible for the subsequent clinical course.}
journal = []
volume = {30:5}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Belgium}
year = {1975}
month = {Jan}
}
title = {Radiation-induced heart disease}
author = {Stroobandt, R, Knieriem, H J, De Wolf, L, and Joossens, J V}
abstractNote = {A 45-year old woman underwent a radical mastectomy in 1965 for carcinoma of the left breast with metastasis in the left axillar lymph nodes. Fifty per cent of the heart received 4,000 rads during postoperative X-ray therapy. Patient developed radiopneumonia and symptoms of acute pericarditis in 1967. Constrictive pericarditis developed gradually from 1972 on. A pericardiectomy was performed in June 1974 and a thickened pericardium could be removed. Light and electron microscopic examination of a surgical biopsy of the left ventricular epi-myocardium revealed epicardial fibrosis, interstitial fibrosis of the myocardium and perivascular fibrosis. The diagnosis of post-radiation pericarditis was made. The myocardial involvement may be responsible for the subsequent clinical course.}
journal = []
volume = {30:5}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Belgium}
year = {1975}
month = {Jan}
}