New Onset Coronary Obstruction in Established Nonischemic Heart Failure: A Late Consequence of Radiation

Salil Kumar; Joe Aoun; Arvind Bhimaraj

doi:10.14797/mdcvj.1097

New Onset Coronary Obstruction in Established Nonischemic Heart Failure: A Late Consequence of Radiation

Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J. 2022 Mar 14;18(2):108-110. doi: 10.14797/mdcvj.1097. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Salil Kumar¹, Joe Aoun¹, Arvind Bhimaraj¹

Affiliation

¹ Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, US.

Abstract

The column in this issue is provided by Salil Kumar, MD, and Joe Aoun, MD, chief cardiology fellows in the Houston Methodist Cardiology Department, and Arvind Bhimaraj, MD, associate professor of Clinical Cardiology at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute. Dr. Bhimaraj specializes in cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure and transplantation.

Keywords: heart failure; radiation heart disease; radiation induced coronary artery disease.

MeSH terms

Cardiology*
Coronary Occlusion*
Heart Failure* / diagnosis
Heart Failure* / etiology
Heart Failure* / therapy
Humans