Assessment of Corticosteroid-induced Osteonecrosis in Children Undergoing Chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Autor: Atsushi Kikuta, Nobuyuki Hyakuna, Yasuo Horikoshi, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Yasuto Shimomura, Kazuhiro Kogawa, Masahito Tsurusawa, Takeji Matsushita, Arata Watanabe, Chihiro Kawakami, Takashi Taga, Tsuyako Iwai, Keiko Asami
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
ISSN: 1077-4114
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Steroid-induced osteonecrosis (ON) is a challenging complication encountered during modern chemotherapy for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We retrospectively assessed the incidence of ON and its risk factors in a total of 1095 patients enrolled in 3 consecutive Japanese Children’s Cancer and Leukemia Study Group ALL studies (ALL941 [1994 to 2000], n=464; ALL2000 [2000 to 2004], n=305; and ALL2004 [2004 to 2010], n=326). ON was diagnosed in 16 patients, of whom 15 were symptomatic. The cumulative incidence of ON was 0.76% in ALL941, 0.35% in ALL2000, and 3.6% in ALL2004. The incidence of ON in ALL941/2000, in which only prednisolone was administered as a steroid, was significantly lower than that in ALL2004, in which dexamethasone was used as a partial substitute for prednisolone (P
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