A 44-year-old female patient was seen last week by her internist for a left breast mass. The patient was referred to an oncologist who ordered an MRI, which revealed intraductal carcinoma in situ left breast. Assign the correct ICD-10-CM co...
(36) showed in a prospective cohort of 277 patients with breast cancer that trastuzumab therapy resulted in early LVEF declines and incomplete recovery (e.g., persistent subclinical dysfunction) at 3 years. The echocardiographic parameters most consistently associated with LVEF decline were LV volumes...
Patients have been followed for 1 to 38 months (mean of 16 ± 9.7 months [18 ± 9.4 months for the subgroup]). One patient died of breast cancer 28 months after surgery. Despite discontinued anti-coagulation, no patients had experienced recurrence of thrombo-embolism. The authors concluded th...