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Full Issue: The International Undergraduate Journal Of Health Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2021 Jun 2021

Full Issue: The International Undergraduate Journal Of Health Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2021

International Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences

The full June 2021 issue (Volume 1, Issue 1) of the International Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences


The Effect Of Carfilzomib And Bortezomib Based Regimes On Cardiotoxicity In Multiple Myeloma Patients At Cooper University Hospital, Ami Patel, Tulin Budak-Alpdogan, Stalam Tapati May 2021

The Effect Of Carfilzomib And Bortezomib Based Regimes On Cardiotoxicity In Multiple Myeloma Patients At Cooper University Hospital, Ami Patel, Tulin Budak-Alpdogan, Stalam Tapati

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Introduction

  • Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of plasma cells, which is a white blood cell that normally produces antibodies
  • Treatment in patients younger than 65 years old is typically high dose chemotherapy, usually with bortezomib based regimens or lenalidomide dexamethasone, followed by a stem cell transplant
  • For patients with relapsed myeloma, carfilzomib is usually the treatment of choice
  • Carfilzomib is a highly selective, irreversible proteasome inhibitor that binds to the 20 S proteasome. Several studies have illustrated that carfilzomib has been associated with cardiovascular adverse events (CVAE).
  • Current literature on the role and effect of bortezomib on cardiotoxicity is …