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Trastuzumab-Tied Cardiotoxicity Same at 5 Years


 

You can tell the patient that, based on the factors in our model, this is her risk for a cardiac event. DR. RASTOGI

Cardiotoxicity Prediction Model

To obtain the cardiac risk score (percentage of risk of a cardiac event within3 years), take the constant of 7.4 plus 0.03 times the patient's age, minus 0.1 times the baseline left ventricular ejection fraction plus the addition of 0.68 if the patient is on blood pressure medications or 0 if the patient is not on blood pressure medicines times 100 divided by 4.82.

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