Cardiovascular Adverse Effects of Several Anticancer Agents
Effect | Agent |
Myocardial depression | Anthracyclines, mitoxantrone, high-dose cyclophosphamide, trastuzumab, ifosfamide, all-trans retinoic acid |
Ischemia | 5-fluorouracil, cisplatin, capecitabine, interleukin-2 |
Hypotension | Etoposide, paclitaxel, alemtuzumab, cetuximab, rituximab, interleukin-2, denileukin, interferon-α, all-trans retinoic acid, homoharringtonine |
Hypertension | Bevacizumab, cisplatin |
Other | Busulfan (cardiac tamponade, endomyocardial fibrosis) Cyclophosphamide (hemorrhagic myocarditis) |
Paclitaxel, thalidomide (bradyarrhythmias) Arsenic trioxide (QT prolongation or torsades de pointes) |