Within the broad field of oncology is a relatively small but important area of cardiac oncology. The scope of cardiac oncology will increase as we conยญ tinue to develop expertise in the detection and management of cardiac probยญ we intensify efforts to improve survival in patients who at an lems and as earlier time might have succumbed to advanced disease and a fragile cardioยญ vascular system. With our aging population and the developing complexity of treatment modalities, we now recognize that the cardiovascular system is a target of the adverse effects of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and cancer itself. The goal of this book is to present the scope of modern cardiac oncology as a growing discipline with sophisticated diagnostic testing and treatment modalities. The views of different specialists from different subspecialities are integrated to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis, manยญ agement, and complications of cancer of the heart and related conditions. The rapidly growing interest in cardiac oncology has largely been advanced through the ready availability of two-dimensional echocardiography, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, angiocardiography, and other imaging techยญ niques. This book is divided into four parts. The first appraises cardiac tumors in detail and describes the distribution, pathology, noninvasive and invasive methods for testing, diagnosis, and treatment. The surgical approach to cardiac tumors has been included. It is a major advance that was essentially nonexistent a decade or so ago. Novel surgical approaches have now been successful in many instances
CONTENT
I: Cardiac Tumors -- 1 Pathology of Cardiac Tumors -- 2 Clinical Manifestations of Neoplasia of the Heart -- 3 Computed Tomography of Neoplastic Disease of the Pericardium -- 4 Cardiac Catheterization and Endomyocardial Biopsy -- 5 Metastatic Cardiac Tumors: Recognition of Pericardial, Myocardial, and Endocardial Involvement by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography -- 6 Primary Solid Tumors of the Heart -- 7 Cardiac Metastasis -- 8 Atrial Tumors -- 9 Medical Management of Cardiac Tumors -- 10 Pediatric Cardiac Tumors -- 11 Surgical Management of Cardiac Tumors -- II: Paraneoplastic Syndromes -- 12 Carcinoid Heart Disease -- 13 Pheochromocytoma -- 14 Cardiac Amyloidosis -- 15 Cardiac Disorders in Leukemias and Plasma-Cell Dyscrasias -- III: Cardiovascular Abnormalities in Cancer Patients -- 16 Anemia of Cancer and Its Cardiac Effects -- 17 Hemolytic Anemias of Cancer and Cardiac Effects -- 18 Malignant Superior Vena Cava Syndrome -- 19 Malignant Pericardial Effusion and Cardiac Tamponade -- 20 Effects of Chemotherapy on the Heart -- 21 Doxorubicin Cardiotoxicity -- 22 Radiation Therapy and the Heart -- 23 Eosinophilic and Granulomatous Inflammation of the Heart -- 24 Valvular Involvement in Cancer -- IV: Cancer and Heart Disease -- 25 Smoking, Lung Cancer, and Coronary Heart Disease -- 26 Role of Nutrition in Cancer and Heart Disease -- 27 Stress, Cancer, and the Heart -- 28 Critical Care of Cancer Patients
