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. 2023 Sep 14;23:866. doi: 10.1186/s12885-023-11353-9

Table 2.

Prevalence of acute and early-onset cardiotoxicity in children with cancer treated with anthracyclines, mitoxantrone and/or radiotherapy involving the heart

Study Definition of cardiotoxicity Timing of onseta Prevalence (n/N) Prevalence (%; 95% CI)
Echocardiography – systolic dysfunction
 Fractional shortening
  Chen 2009 [32]  < 28% Acute/early 2/168 1.2; 0.3–4.2
  Mavinkurve-Groothuis 2013 [49] Early 0/60 0.0; 0.0–6.0
  Tan 2021 [67] Acute/early 15/458 3.3; 2.0–5.3
  Agha 2016 [27] Acute/early 2/30 6.7; 1.8–21.3
Decrease > 10% of baseline 12/30 40.0; 24.6–57.7
  De Matos Neto 2006 [36]  ≤ 29% or decrease ≥ 10% of baseline Acute/early 7/37 18.9; 9.5–34.2
  Kremer 2002 [13]  < 30% or decrease ≥ 15% of baseline Early 7/32 21.9; 11.0–38.8
  Krischke 2016 [48] Once < 28% Acute/early 6/101 5.9; 2.8–12.4
Once or more ≤ 30% 20/101 19.8; 13.2–28.6
Ejection fraction
 Fukumi 2002 [39]  < 50% Acute/early 0/29 0.0; 0.0–11.7
 Hagag 2019 [42] Acute/early 0/40 0.0; 0.0–8.8
 Linares Ballesteros 2021 [64]  < 53% Acute 0/112 0.0; 0.0–3.3
Early 20/112 17.9; 11.9–26.0
 Moyo 2021 [65] Decrease ≥ 10% to a final value of < 50% Acute/early 0/92 0.0; 0.0–4.0
 Samosir 2021 [66]  < 50% or decrease > 10% of baseline Acute/early 5/49 10.2; 4.4–21.8
 Brown 2013 [31] Decrease > 10% of baseline Acute/early 10/71 14.1; 7.8–24.0
 Berrak 2001 [30] Decrease > 15% of baseline Early 1/97 1.0; 0.2–5.6
 Gupta 2018 [41] Decrease ≥ 20% of baseline Early 3/40 7.5; 2.6–19.9
Fractional shortening or ejection fraction
 Erkus 2007 [38] FS < 29% or EF < 55% Early 0/29 0.0; 0.0–11.7
 Moussa 2017 [51] FS ≤ 28% or EF ≤ 58% Acute/early 31/149 20.8; 15.1–28.0
Global longitudinal strain
 Cheung 2020 Decrease ≥ 20% Early 22/39 56.4; 41.0–70.7
Echocardiography – diastolic dysfunction
 Tei index
  Ishii 2000 [45]  > 0.35 Acute/early ANT < 200 mg/m2: 9/30 30.0; 16.7–47.9
ANT ≥ 200/ < 400 mg/m2: 25/30 83.3; 66.4–92.7
ANT ≥ 400 mg/m2: 12/12 100; 75.8–100
E/A ratio
 Oztarhan 2011 [52]  < 1 Acute/early 91/251 36.3; 30.6–42.4
Combination of echocardiographic and/or clinical parameters
 National Cancer Institute – Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
  Creutzig 2007 [35] Version nm Acute/early LVSD/FS, grade 1: 11/885 1.2; 0.7–2.2
LVSD/FS, grade 2: 9/885 1.0; 0.5–1.9
  Asselin 2016 [29] Version 2.0 Acute/early LVSD/FS, grade 3 or 4: 3/624 0.5; 0.2–1.4
  Schramm 2019 [55] Acute/early LVSD/EF, grade 1: 3/229 1.3; 0.4–3.8
LVSD/EF, grade 3: 2/229 0.9; 0.2–3.1
LVSD/FS, grade 1: 3/175 1.7; 0.6–4.9
  Getz 2019 [40] Version 3.0 Acute/early LVSD/FS or EF, grade 2 or higher: 118/795 14.8; 12.5–17.5
  Brown 2013 [31] Version 3.0/4.0 Acute/early LVSD/EF, grade 1: 25/71 35.2; 25.1–46.8
LVSD/EF, grade 2: 10/71b 14.1; 7.8–24.0
LVSD/EF, grade 3: 5/71 7.0; 3.0–15.4
  Katzenstein 2022 [63] Acute/early LVSD, grade 3 or higher: 1/102 1.0; 0.2–5.3
RVD, grade 3 or higher: 1/102 1.0; 0.2–5.3
Cardiopulmonary arrest, grade 4: 2/102 2.0; 0.5–6.9
  Burke 2021 [61] Version 4.0 Acute/early LVSD/FS or EF, grade 2: 1/46 2.2; 0.4–11.3
  Tringale 2022 [69] Version 5.0 Acute/early Grade 2 ‘left-ventricular strain’: 1/50 2.0; 0.4–10.5
  Yu 2021 [70] Acute/early LVSD/EF: 0/171c 0.0; 0.0–2.2
Combination of echocardiographic parameters
 Choi 2010 [34] FS < 28% or increased ventricular diastolic or systolic diameter for age Acute/early 16/42 38.1; 25.0–53.2
Combination of echocardiographic and clinical parameters
 Cheung 2020 Clinical heart failure or reduced EF Acute 0/39 0.0; 0.0–9.0
Early 0/39 0.0; 0.0–9.0
 Hu 2018 (2) [44] EF < 53% and heart failure symptoms Early 2/131 1.5; 0.4–5.4
 Kang 2012 [46] EF < 45% or evidence of clinical congestive heart failure Acute/early 9/123 7.3; 3.9–13.3
 Moke 2018 [50] FS < 25% or decrease of > 10% of baseline; EF < 50% or decrease of > 10% of baseline; ventricular dilation; cardiomyopathy; E/A reversal; valve abnormality or arrhythmia leading to cardiology referral or cardiac medication initiation Early 8/368 2.2; 1.1–4.2
 Stöhr 2006 [57] FS < 29% without clinical symptoms (subclinical cardiomyopathy) Acute/early 2/172 1.2; 0.3–4.1
FS < 29% with clinical symptoms (clinical cardiomyopathy) 1/172 0.6; 0.1–3.2
 Tantawy 2011 [58] EF < 50% Acute/early 12/39 30.8; 18.6–46.4
Clinical heart failure 0/39 0.0; 0.0–9.0
 Temming 2011 [59] FS < 28% without clinical symptoms (subclinical cardiomyopathy) Acute/early 6/95 6.3; 2.9–13.1
FS < 28% with clinical symptoms (clinical cardiomyopathy) 7/95 7.4; 3.6–14.4
Clinical symptoms
 Creutzig 2007 [35] Clinical signs and symptoms of cardiomyopathy not attributable to other known causes such as sepsis or renal failure Acute/early 14/885 1.6; 0.9–2.6
 Hu 2018 (1) [43] Heart failure Early 0/36 0.0; 0.0–9.6
 Shaikh 2013 [59] Cardiac dysfunction Acute/early 28/110 25.5; 18.2–34.3
 Tang 2020 Chemotherapy-related severe myocardial damage or impaired cardiac function Acute/early 0/102 0.0; 0.0–3.6
 Van Dalen 2006 [23] Congestive heart failure defined as the presence of following clinical signs: dyspnea, pulmonary oedema, peripheral oedema and/or exercise intolerance, which were treated with anticongestive therapy Acute/early 16/830 1.9; 1.2–3.1
Biomarker levels
 Gupta 2018 [41] proBNP ≥ 100 pg/mL Early 15/40 37.5; 24.2–53.0
 Linares Ballesteros 2021 [64] BNP > 100 pg/mL Early 26/112 23.2; 16.4–31.8
TnI > 0.05 ng/L 0/112 0.0; 0.0–3.3
TnT > 0.04 ng/mL 0/112 0.0; 0.0–3.3
 Mavinkurve-Groothuis 2013 [49] NT-proBNP > 97.5th percentile Early 8/41 19.5; 10.2–34.0
cTnT > 0.01 ng/mL 1/41 2.4; 0.4–12.6
 Erkus 2007 [38] cTnI > 0.04 ng/mL Early 2/29 6.9; 1.9–22.0
 Asselin 2016 [29] cTnT > 0.01 ng/mL Acute/early 10/114 8.8; 4.8–15.4
 Kremer 2002 [13] cTnT > 0.040 ng/mL Acute 3/38 7.9; 2.7–20.8
Early 1/31 3.2; 0.6–16.2

Abbreviations: ANT Cumulative anthracycline dose, BNP Brain natriuretic peptide, CI Confidence interval, cTnI Cardiac troponin I, cTnT Cardiac troponin T, EF Ejection fraction, FS Fractional shortening, LVSD Left ventricular systolic dysfunction, NCI CTCAE National Cancer Institute – Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, NT-proBNP N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide, proBNP Prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide, RVD Right ventricular dysfunction, TnI Troponin I, TnT Troponin T

aacute (within one week after a treatment); early (within one year after start of treatment); acute/early (acute and early not separable)

b an additional 10/71 (14.1%; 95% CI 7.8–24.0) had 10–19% decrease from baseline ejection fraction (version 4.0, grade 2)

c31/171 (18.1%; 95% CI 13.1–24.6) showed echo abnormalities including pericardial effusion (N = 14), left ventricular hypertrophy (N = 11), widened pulmonary artery (N = 5) and valve disease (N = 5), not graded according to NCI CTCAE