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Anthracycline-Related Cardiomyopathy After Childhood Cancer: Role of Polymorphisms in Carbonyl Reductase Genes—A Report From the Children's Oncology Group

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Increased anthracycline-related cardiomyopathy risk at doses as low as 101 to 150 mg/m(2) is demonstrated, such that there seems to be no safe dose for patients homozygous for the CBR3 V244M G allele.
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Current Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies for Specific Dilated Cardiomyopathies: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

TL;DR: The intent of this American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement is to summarize the current understanding of dilated cardiomyopathies, with special emphasis on recent developments in diagnostic approaches and therapies for specific cardiologyopathies.
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Drugs That May Cause or Exacerbate Heart Failure: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

TL;DR: This scientific statement is designed to serve as a comprehensive and accessible source of drugs that may cause or exacerbate heart failure to assist healthcare providers in improving the quality of care for these patients.
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Anthracyclines: Molecular Advances and Pharmacologic Developments in Antitumor Activity and Cardiotoxicity

TL;DR: An overview of issues confirms that anthracyclines remain “evergreen” drugs with broad clinical indications but have still an improvable therapeutic index.
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A structural approach to selection bias.

TL;DR: This work argues that the causal structure underlying the bias in each example is essentially the same: conditioning on a common effect of 2 variables, one of which is either exposure or a cause of exposure and the other is either the outcome or acause of the outcome.
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Chronic Progressive Cardiac Dysfunction Years After Doxorubicin Therapy for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

TL;DR: Cardiac abnormalities were persistent and progressive after doxorubicin therapy, and inadequate ventricular mass with chronic afterload excess was associated with progressive contractile deficit and possibly reduced cardiac output and restrictive cardiomyopathy.
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