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ReviewCardiac failure review2019

Bidirectional Relationship Between Cancer and Heart Failure: Old and New Issues in Cardio-oncology.

Edoardo Bertero, Pietro Ameri, Christoph Maack

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Review in Cardiac failure review, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Risk factors associated with cardiovascular hospital admissions and all-cause mortality in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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  16. Emerging mitochondrial signaling mechanisms in cardio-oncology: beyond oxidative stress.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2022
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  20. Is Heart Failure a New Risk Factor for Incident Cancer?Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Edoardo BerteroComprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Clinic Würzburg Würzburg, Germany.
Pietro AmeriCardiovascular Disease Unit, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino - IRCCS Italian Cardiovascular Network Genova, Italy.
Christoph MaackComprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Clinic Würzburg Würzburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The main focus of cardio-oncology has been the prevention and treatment of the cardiac toxicity of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Furthermore, several targeted therapies have been associated with unexpected cardiotoxic side-effects. Recently, epidemiological studies reported a higher incidence of cancer in patients with heart failure (HF) compared with individuals without HF. On this basis, it has been proposed that HF might represent an oncogenic condition. This hypothesis is supported by preclinical studies demonstrating that hyperactivation of the sympathetic nervous system and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, which is a hallmark of HF, promotes cancer growth and dissemination. Another intriguing possibility is that the co-occurrence of HF and cancer is promoted by a common pathological milieu characterised by a state of chronic low-grade inflammation, which predisposes to both diseases. In this review, we provide an overview of the mechanisms underlying the bidirectional relationship between HF and cancer.

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amyloidosisCancercarcinoid heart diseasechemotherapyheart failureinflammationneurohormonal activation

Identifiers

PMID31179021
PMCPMC6546001

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