Left ventricular hypertrophy in children, adolescents and young adults with sickle cell anemia.

Autor: Faro GB; Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Aracaju, SE, Brazil., Menezes-Neto OA; Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Aracaju, SE, Brazil., Batista GS; Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Aracaju, SE, Brazil., Silva-Neto AP; Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Aracaju, SE, Brazil., Cipolotti R; Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Aracaju, SE, Brazil. Electronic address: rosanaci@yahoo.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de hematologia e hemoterapia [Rev Bras Hematol Hemoter] 2015 Sep-Oct; Vol. 37 (5), pp. 324-8. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Jul 26.
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjhh.2015.07.001
Abstrakt: Objective: The aims of this study were to estimate the frequency of left ventricular hypertrophy and to identify variables associated with this condition in under 25-year-old patients with sickle cell anemia.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed of children, adolescents and young adults with sickle cell anemia submitted to a transthoracic Doppler echocardiography. The mass of the left ventricle was determined by the formula of Devereux et al. with correction for height, and the percentile curves of gender and age were applied. Individuals with rheumatic and congenital heart disease were excluded. The patients were divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of left ventricular hypertrophy and compared according to clinical, echocardiographic and laboratory variables.
Results: A total of 37.6% of the patients had left ventricular hypertrophy in this sample. There was no difference between the groups of patients with and without hypertrophy according to pathological history or clinical characteristics, except possibly for the use of hydroxyurea, more often used in the group without left ventricular hypertrophy. Patients with left ventricular hypertrophy presented larger left atria and lower hemoglobin and hematocrit levels, reticulocyte index and a higher albumin:creatinine ratio in urine.
Conclusion: Left ventricular hypertrophy was observed in more than one-third of the young patients with sickle cell anemia with this finding being inversely correlated to the hemoglobin and hematocrit levels, and reticulocyte index and directly associated to a higher albumin/creatinine ratio. It is possible that hydroxyurea had had a protective effect on the development of left ventricular hypertrophy.
(Copyright © 2015 Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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