[Late cardiac complications of radiation therapy].
BACKGROUND
Mediastinal irradiation treatment has drastically improved the prognosis for several neoplasms, mostly particularly breast cancer and lymphoma. Nonetheless, the increase in survival is accompanied by side effects, including cardiac complications that often appear much later.


METHODS
This patient with Hodgkin disease received radiation therapy. Complications developed 28 years later and included conduction disorders and chronic pericarditis, first exudative and then constrictive.


CONCLUSIONS
As the literature shows, different cardiac complications of radiation therapy can follow one another. Attentive long-term monitoring is necessary for appropriate treatment.
Service de cardiologie, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny. jean-christophe.chariot@avc.ap-hop-paris.fr
Jean-Christophe
JC
Charniot
Khaled
K
Zerhouni
Rachid
R
Kidouche
Linda
L
Nascimbeni
Iradj
I
Gandjbakhch
Jean-Yves
JY
Artigou
D000328:Adult; D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006327:Heart Block / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D012306:Risk; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes