What Do Elevated Cardiac Enzymes While On Chemotherapy Suggest?

Posted on Tue, 2 Aug 2016

Question: My friends having chemotherapy for breast cancer, 16 treatments and then 5 weeks of radiation. This is her 4th chemo and her cardiac enzymes are elevated and has been put in hospital with a heparin drip. What does this mean? How bad is her prognosis? She tells me everything is going to be fine.

Answered by Dr. Deepak Sundriyal (27 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Hello dear. prognosis is still good

Detailed Answer:
Hello dear. Welcome to HCM. I understand your concern. I would like to know
What is the stage of disease
What chemo drugs were used
Raised cardiac enzymes means she had some kind of heart injury whichbis most likely a myocardial infarction for which she in under heparin drip. Prognosis is still good. After recovery we need to change the chemotherapy drug if the drug is supposed to cause the injury. However, she should be under continuous echocardiographic monitoring at frequent intervals.
Thanks and regards

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