Haematology 2018

Heart failure after HL (1st event) 91 cases and 278 controls nested in cohort of 2,617 Dutch five-year survivors of HL treated between 1965 and 1995

• 44% grade 2 and 43% grade 3 heart failure (HF)

• Median interval until HF: 20.6 years (IQR: 13.7-25.2)

• Median age at HL diagnosis: 28.3 years (IQR: 21.9-37.7).

• 57% of the HF cases had died by the end of follow-up, with

median time from HF to death of 3.6 years (IQR: 0.2-5.6).

Van Nimwegen et al., Blood 2017