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. 2024 Sep 24;6(5):631–654. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccao.2024.07.017

Table 1.

Imaging Modalities and Derived Phenotypes for Baseline Risk Assessment of Patients With Cancer

TTE CMR Cardiac CT
Recommended parameters
  • LVEDV and LVEF (ideally 3D TTE)

  • LAV, E/A measurement

  • RV diameter

  • GLS

  • RV FWLS and LA strain if available

  • S′ for mitral and tricuspid

  • TAPSE

  • Peak TRV

  • E/E′

  • IVC diameter

  • Valvular and pericardial diseases

  • LVEDV and RVEDV

  • LV mass

  • LVEF and RVEF

  • Longitudinal and circumferential strain if available

  • Myocardial characterization

  • T2w (STIR), T1, T2 maps, LGE

  • Agatston score for cardiac CT and CAC-DRS for all noncontrast CT scans

  • LVEDV and LVEF

  • Coronary anatomy description

Clinical scenarios in which these imaging tests are recommended at baselinea
  • All patients with pre-existing cardiovascular diseases

  • All patients receiving anthracyclines, HER2 therapies, proteasome inhibitors, CAR-T therapy, and HSCT

  • Patients at high cardiovascular toxicity risk receiving immunotherapy-targeted therapies (VEGF, bcr-abl TKIs, BRAF-MEKi, BTKi)

  • Poor-quality TTE imaging or borderline results

  • Patients with pre-existing cardiovascular disease

  • New left ventricular impairment or cardiac symptoms on baseline TTE

  • Multiple myeloma where cardiac amyloidosis is suspected

  • Symptomatic patients before any potentially cardiotoxic therapy

  • High-risk patients or those with known CAD before fluoropyrimidines, targeted therapies (VEGFi, second- and third-generation bcr-abl TKIs), IMIDs

3D = 3-dimensional; BRAF = rapidly accelerated fibrosarcoma B type; BTKi = Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor; CAC-DRS = coronary artery calcium data and reporting system; CAR-T = chimeric antigen receptor T cell; CMR = cardiac magnetic resonance; CT = computed tomography; E = mitral inflow early diastolic velocity obtained by pulsed wave; E′ = early diastolic velocity of the mitral annulus obtained by tissue Doppler imaging; FWLS = free wall longitudinal strain; GLS = global longitudinal strain; HER2 = human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; HSCT = hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; IMID = immunomodulatory agent; IVC = inferior vena cava; LA = left atrial; LAV = left atrial volume; LGE = late gadolinium enhancement; LV = left ventricular; LVEDV = left ventricular end-diastolic volume; LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction; MEKi = mitogen-activated protein/extracellular signal-regulated/kinase inhibitor; RV = right ventricular; RVEDV = right ventricular end-diastolic volume; RVEF = right ventricular ejection fraction; S′ = systolic velocity of tricuspid annulus obtained by Doppler tissue imaging; STIR = short tau inversion recovery; TAPSE = tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion; TKI = tyrosine kinase inhibitors; TTE = transthoracic echocardiography; TRV = tricuspid regurgitation velocity; VEGF = vascular endothelial growth factor; VEGFi = vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor.

a

European Society of Cardiology guidelines included only class 1 indications for TTE.