Publications by authors named "Michiel Meylaers"
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- A young woman with no prior health issues experienced irregular heartbeats and was diagnosed with a rare condition called left ventricular diverticulum (LVD) after imaging tests showed heart abnormalities.
- The LVD involved all three layers of the heart wall, leading to a slightly lowered heart function, and there are no established guidelines for treatment, which can range from monitoring to surgery.
- Over 8 years, her condition remained stable with medical management, emphasizing the need for a personalized approach based on individual patient characteristics.
Due to the rising use of chemotherapy treatment in cancer patients and growing survival rates, therapy-induced neurotoxic side effects are increasingly reported. Given the ambiguity about the prevalence and severity of leukoencephalopathy, one of such toxic side effects, in non-central nervous system (CNS) cancer patients, we performed a systematic literature search using the PubMed/Medline database to summarize existing literature regarding leukoencephalopathy epidemiology in non-CNS cancer patients and its potential cognitive sequelae. The search was based on the following terms: ('MRI' OR 'T2-weighted MRI' OR 'FLAIR') AND ('cancer' OR 'tumour' OR 'leukaemia' OR 'neoplasms') AND ('chemotherapy' OR 'radiotherapy') AND ('posterior reversible encephalopathy' OR 'leukoencephalopathy' OR 'cerebral ischaemia' OR 'stroke').
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