Diagnosing Preclinical Cardiac Dysfunction in Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivors: Protocol for a Single-Center Cohort Study

Christina Schindera   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Claudia Elisabeth Kuehni   ^{1, 3} , MD ;   Mladen Pavlovic   ⁴ , MD ;   Eva Simona Haegler-Laube   ⁴ , MD ;   Daniel Rhyner   ⁴ , MD ;   Nicolas Waespe   ^{1, 5} , MD ;   Jochen Roessler   ³ , MD ;   Thomas Suter   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Nicolas Xavier von der Weid   ^{2 *} , MD

¹ Childhood Cancer Registry, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

² Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

³ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Children’s Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁴ Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁵ Platform of Pediatric Onco-Hematology research, CANSEARCH Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

*these authors contributed equally