Pediatric Blood and Cancer: Electrophysiological effects of anthracyclines in adult survivors of pediatric malignancy. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital conducted a retrospective chart review of 147 survivors of childhood cancer that were now over the age of 18. The goal of the study was to evaluate the correlation between abnormalities in electrocardiographic changes and cardiac dysfunction noted by echocardiographic measurements. Survivors were selected that had at least one EKG and one echocardiogram. Statistical comparisons were then made between EKG findings, echocardiographic data, and treatment data.
