Echocardiography in Cardio-Oncology: From Early Detection to Established Cardiovascular Disease
A special issue of Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease (ISSN 2308-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Imaging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 138
Special Issue Editor
Interests: echocardiography; valvular heart disease; tricuspid regurgitation; right ventricular function; endocarditis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Cardiovascular complications have become an increasingly important determinant of morbidity and mortality in patients with cancer. As oncologic therapies evolve and survival improves, the need for accurate cardiovascular monitoring and early detection of cardiac complications has grown substantially. Echocardiography plays an important role in cardio-oncology due to its non-invasive nature, broad availability, and capacity for comprehensive structural, functional, and hemodynamic assessment.
This Special Issue focuses on the contribution of echocardiography to the understanding, diagnosis, and management of cardiovascular disease in patients with cancer.
Topics of interest include cancer therapy-related cardiotoxicity, early detection of subclinical myocardial dysfunction, valvular and pericardial disease associated with malignancy or oncologic therapies, intracardiac masses and tumors, and thrombotic entities such as non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis. Furthermore, studies addressing innovative echocardiographic technologies—including three-dimensional imaging, stress echocardiography, multimodality imaging strategies centered around echocardiography, and artificial intelligence—are highly welcome.
We invite original research articles, systematic reviews, state-of-the-art reviews, case series, and illustrative case reports that advance imaging-based cardiovascular care for patients with cancer.
Dr. Matthias Schneider-Reigbert
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cardio-oncology
- echocardiography
- cancer therapy-related cardiotoxicity
- non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis
- pericardial disease
- intracardiac masses
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