Bone Marrow Transplantation

High Serum Creatinine Is Risk for Acute Renal Insufficiency

Published in Blood Weekly, December 7th, 1998

High serum creatinine and bone marrow transplantation (BMT) with either a non-HLA-identical related or a matched unrelated donor were among the risk factors for acute renal insufficiency.

J. Holthe et al. investigated the effect of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) on renal function in children ("Bone Marrow Transplantation in Children: Consequences for Renal Function Shortly after and 1 Year Post-BMT," Bone Marrow Transplantation, September 1998;22(6):559-564).

During a five-year period, 142 children received a BMT at the Department of Pediatrics of the University Hospital Leiden. The study was performed retrospectively using the estimated...

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