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Introduction Cardiotoxicity, primarily in the form of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, is a feared side-effect of selected drugs that are widely used in oncology.1,2 To reduce its occurrence, practice guidelines consistently recommend assessing LV systolic function, primarily by echocardiography, before and during exposure to cardiotoxic medications.3 However, apart from left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), contemporary echocardiography reports include dozens of numerical data points, as well as detailed information about haemodynamics, all the cardiac chambers and the heart valves; and some of this information may be clinically relev

Acute heart failure The first of the clinical heart failure sessions, delivered by Professor Theresa McDonagh (King’s College Hospital, London), considered the definition of acute heart failure (AHF) and how this has been simplified over recent years from a minefield of overlapping statements set out in 2008. Acute hypertensive heart failure, acutely decompensated chronic heart failure, acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and heart failure, right heart failure – amongst other terminology – have now been categorised into: ‘puffers’ – pulmonary oedema, fluid distribution error and ‘bloaters’ – peripheral oedema with genuine fluid

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