Long-Term Kidney and Cardiovascular Complications in Pediatric Cancer Survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to describe the burden of adverse kidney and hypertension outcomes in patients evaluated by pediatric nephrology in a multidisciplinary survivorship clinic.

Study design

Retrospective chart review of all patients followed up by nephrology in our multidisciplinary survivorship clinic from August 2013 to June 2021. Data included clinic blood pressure, longitudinal ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), echocardiography, serum creatinine, and first-morning urine protein/creatinine ratios. For patients with multiple ABPMs, results of initial and most recent ABPMs were compared.

Results

Of 422 patients followed in the multidisciplinary cancer survivorship clinic, 130 were seen by nephrology. The median time after therapy comp

SUBMITTER: Hsiao W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10398617 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature