Longitudinal evaluation of early and late anthracycline cardiotoxicity in children with AML

Autor: Ursula Creutzig, S Diekamp, Dirk Reinhardt, Martin Zimmermann
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 48:651-662
ISSN: 1545-5017
1545-5009
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21105
Popis: Background Anthracyclines are effective antineoplastic drugs in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). However, their use is limited by cardiomyopathy, which occurs in children already at cumulative doses of 300 mg/m2 (given as daunorubicin equivalent). Procedure To evaluate anthracycline-associated cardiomyopathy in pediatric AML-patients, the incidence of early and late (>1 year after intensive AML chemotherapy) clinical and subclinical cardiotoxicity was analyzed out of a total of 1,207 patients
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