Publications by authors named "K Bockemuehl"
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluated left ventricular ejection fractions (LVEF) in 37 patients undergoing doxorubicin therapy to assess their risk for congestive heart failure (CHF) using various measurement methods.
- An abnormal resting LVEF showed moderate sensitivity and higher specificity for identifying patients at risk, while adding exercise LVEF significantly increased sensitivity but decreased specificity.
- Overall, exercise LVEF is useful for screening anthracycline cardiotoxicity due to its high sensitivity, but both rest and exercise LVEF alone are not definitive tests due to their limitations in specificity.
