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Acute Heart Failure in a Patient with Occult Barlow’s Disease Receiving Bevacizumab

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Bevacizumab is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody and a key drug for treatment of various types of cancer. Bevacizumab is associated with the occurrence of heart failure, but its risk… Click to show full abstract

Bevacizumab is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody and a key drug for treatment of various types of cancer. Bevacizumab is associated with the occurrence of heart failure, but its risk factors remain unknown. A 55-year-old woman was diagnosed with cervical cancer, which was completely treated by bevacizumab-incorporated chemotherapy. During the 9-month bevacizumab therapy, she suffered from hypertension requiring multiple antihypertensive agents. She was admitted to our hospital due to acute heart failure with afterload mismatch and severe mitral regurgitation. A transesophageal echocardiography showed Barlow’s disease with a degenerated and widely prolapsed mitral valve. She received a scheduled surgical mitral valve repair. Post-operative cause was uneventful, but metastatic dissemination developed later. The existence of mitral valve regurgitation, even when sub-clinical, might be a risk of worsening heart failure during bevacizumab therapy. Careful follow-up at an onco-cardiology clinic is highly encouraged particularly for such a cohort during bevacizumab therapy.

Keywords: barlow disease; bevacizumab; acute heart; heart failure

Journal Title: Medicina
Year Published: 2021

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