Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) occurring during treatment for breast cancer

Babra, Deshveer; Youn, Suhyun; Devendra, Senan

doi:10.1136/bcr-2021-242472

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“…Cardiac autonomic neuropathy in cancer survivors can present in the form of orthostatic hypotension, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and tachycardia [16]. However, in the current study, the basal HR and BP of ALL patients immediately after chemotherapy were found to be lower as compared to the controls.…”

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Cardiac Autonomic and Endothelial Function in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Patients Immediately After Chemotherapy and at the Three-Month Follow-up

Sameer,

Kuppusamy

et al. 2024

Cureus

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Introduction: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a malignant uncontrolled overproduction of immature lymphoid cells in blood and bone marrow. The primary treatment of ALL is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can have myriad systemic side effects, notably cardiovascular derangement. Autonomic derangement occurrence in cancer patients signifies cardiovascular risk in them and is a determinant of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Elevated soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (sVCAM-1) and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) levels implicated in the regulation of inflammation indicate endothelial dysfunction. High levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) can be indicative of lowgrade inflammation. Hence, in this study the cardiac autonomic function and endothelial and inflammatory biomarker levels in adult patients with ALL were assessed immediately and three months after chemotherapy.Methods: In this longitudinal study, 30 ALL patients (23 males, seven females) aged between 18 to 50 years, who had completed chemotherapy regimens, and 30 age and gender-matched healthy participants (controls) were recruited. Cardiac autonomic function tests (short-term heart rate variability (HRV), 30:15 ratio, synaptic excitation and inhibition (E/I) ratio, diastolic blood pressure (DBP) response to isometric hand grip), endothelial markers (sVCAM-1 and sICAM-1), and inflammatory marker (hsCRP) were assessed immediately and at three months after chemotherapy.Results: Magnitudes of time domain and frequency domain indices, conventional autonomic function test indices, and biomarkers were deranged in ALL patients immediately after chemotherapy. After three months, cardiac autonomic function parameters were found to improve in the form of increased root mean square of successive differences between normal heartbeats (RMSSD), standard deviation of the interbeat intervals of normal sinus beats (SDNN), total power, high-frequency (HF)nu, and decreased low-frequency (LF)nu & LF-HF ratio. Endothelial (sVCAM-1) and inflammatory markers (hsCRP) were lower in the patient group as compared to the controls immediately after chemotherapy. Three months after chemotherapy, the levels of endothelial and inflammatory markers did not show much change. Conclusion:In this study, we found ALL patients showed higher sympathetic drive, decreased parasympathetic modulation, and sympathovagal imbalance immediately after chemotherapy as compared to the controls, indicating cardiovascular risk. After three months, improvement in cardiovascular autonomic function was observed. ALL itself is a state of inflammation with elevated endothelial and inflammatory markers; thus, the decreased endothelial and inflammatory markers could be attributed to the immediate effect of chemotherapy.

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