Evolution Natriuretic Peptide Concentrations of B-type (BNP) During General Anesthesia Under Propofol and Sevoflurane Association in Patients Previously Sensitized to Anthracyclines. Pilot Study in Patients Operated on for Breast Cancer.

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The cardiotoxicity of anthracyclines chemotherapy remains a major problem, despite clinical and echocardiographic monitoring. In the case of treatment for breast cancer, surgery requiring general anesthesia may follow chemotherapy. Although a possible interaction between general anesthetics and anthracyclines on systolic function is only rarely mentioned, some cases of heart failure and / or conduction disturbances peranesthésique were observed in patients treated or previously treated with anthracyclines. The determination of concentration of BNP is a diagnostic tool used in the detection of heart failure and acute coronary syndromes. The question of a possible synergism between cardiotoxic anthracyclines and anesthetic agents arises. Given its minimally invasive nature and its diagnostic value, the BNP assay might thus allow to highlight a possible subclinical deficiency. To our knowledge, there is very little data regarding a possible synergism between cardiotoxic anthracyclines and anesthetic agents.

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