European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on August 1, 2007
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm311
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Radiotherapy effects on systolic myocardial function detected by strain rate imaging in a left-breast cancer patient
1 Laboratory on Cardiovascular Imaging and Dynamics, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Catholic University of Leuven, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
2 Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
* Corresponding author. Tel: +32 16 349016; fax: +32 16 343467. E-mail address: jens-uwe.voigt@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
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Forty-eight-year old woman with left-sided mastectomy due to breast cancer received radiotherapy (RT) to the chest wall by a direct electron field. The internal mammary and medial supraclavicular lymph