27.01.2022 | Clinical Quiz
Joining the dots: Answers
verfasst von:
Niladri Bose, Kaustabh Chaudhuri, Mordi Muorah, Rajiv Sinha
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Nephrology
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Ausgabe 7/2022
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Detailed drug history is required. On further query, the oral chelation therapy being used was deferasirox in a dose of 30 mg/kg/day. The child has been on this for the last 4 months while previously she was on desferrioxamine which is a parenteral chelating agent. Deferasirox, a convenient long-acting oral chelating agent, has been associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) and acute liver failure (ALF) [
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