..., followed by Streptococcus viridans . Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) was performed in 45% of patients overall, of which 5.8% had additional transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE). Only a single case of IE was identified in a 47-year-old multiple myeloma patient with neutropenic fever, S. viridans...

... ]. The latter uses a 0–4 scoring scale: grade 1 is minimal focal iron deposition and grade 4 is massive panlobular iron deposition. Grade 2 is mild liver cell siderosis and grade 3 is moderate iron deposition with periportal accentuation. All 12 patients also underwent echocardiography, both before starting...

... of the chemotherapeutic agents used in leukemia. The myocardial failure in acute leukemia occurs either as a systolic or a diastolic dysfunction. The myocardial infiltration primarily affects the diastolic function, which can be determined by Doppler echocardiography [ 6 ]. Leukemia is thought to affect diastolic...