ABSTRACT
This study attempted to assess the incidence and outcome of anthracycline cardiotoxicity and the role of dexrazoxane as a cardioprotectant in childhood solid tumors. The dexrazoxane group included 47 patients and the control group of historical cohort included 42. Dexrazoxane was given in the 10:1 ratio to doxorubicin. Fractional shortening and systolic and diastolic left ventricular diameters were used to assess the cardiac function. The median follow-ups were 54 months in the dexrazoxane group and 86 months in the control group. The mean cumulative doses of doxorubicin were 280.8+/-83.4 mg/m2 in the dexrazoxane group and 266.1+/-75.0 mg/m2 in the control group. The dexrazoxane group experienced significantly fewer cardiac events (27.7% vs. 52.4%) and less severe congestive heart failure (6.4% vs. 14.3%) than the control group. Thirteen cardiotoxicities including one cardiac death and 2 congestive heart failures occurred in the dexrazoxane group, and 22 cardiotoxicities including 2 cardiac deaths and 4 congestive heart failures, in the control group. Five year cardiac event free survival rates were 69.2% in the dexrazoxane group and 45.8% in the control group (P=0.04). Dexrazoxane reduces the incidence and severity of early and late anthracycline cardiotoxicity in childhood solid tumors.
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Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/adverse effects , Cardiomyopathies/chemically induced , Cardiovascular Agents/therapeutic use , Cohort Studies , Disease-Free Survival , Doxorubicin/adverse effects , Echocardiography , Follow-Up Studies , Heart Failure/chemically induced , Neoplasms/drug therapy , Razoxane/therapeutic use , Ventricular Function, Left/physiologySubject(s)
Humans , Amsacrine/therapeutic use , BCG Vaccine/therapeutic use , Cisplatin/therapeutic use , Colonic Neoplasms/drug therapy , Etoposide/therapeutic use , Fluorouracil/therapeutic use , Interferon-alpha/therapeutic use , Interleukin-2/therapeutic use , Leucovorin/therapeutic use , Methotrexate/therapeutic use , Mitomycins/therapeutic use , Razoxane/therapeutic use , Semustine/therapeutic use , Streptozocin/therapeutic use , Tamoxifen/therapeutic use , Thioguanine/therapeutic use , Vincristine/therapeutic use , Vinyl Chloride/therapeutic useABSTRACT
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