Use of speckle tracking echocardiography to detect late anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity in childhood cancer: A prospective controlled cross-sectional study.

Background: This study aimed to detect late sub-clinical patterns of cardiac dysfunction using speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) in children with cancer remission more than 12 months after the end of anthracycline treatment.

Methods: This prospective controlled study enrolled 196 children, 98 of which had been treated with anthracyclines (mean age 10.8 ± 3.

Assessment of left ventricular dyssynchrony by speckle tracking echocardiography in children with duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Prognosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is related to cardiac dysfunction. Two dimensional-speckle tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) has recently emerged as a non-invasive functional biomarker for early detection of DMD-related cardiomyopathy. This study aimed to determine, in DMD children, the existence of left ventricle (LV) dyssynchrony using 2D-STE analysis.

Pheochromocytoma in a patient presenting with ventricular fibrillation and carotid dissection: a case report.

Background: Pheochromocytoma is an endocrine tumour secreting catecholamines, most often revealed by clinical symptoms (headache, palpitations, diaphoresis, or resistant hypertension). Some cases of ventricular arrhythmias were described in the literature, without any formal link between arrhythmia and pheochromocytoma.

Case Summary: We report a case of pheochromocytoma discovered after cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation in a 46-year-old patient.