Stefana Maria Moisă, Adriana Rusu, Silvia Dumitraş, M Burlea, Ingrid Miron
UNLABELLED: The goals of this paper were to study the various types of digestive disease in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), to characterize the children in the study group by age, sex and environment, by presence of liver and spleen enlargement, levels of GOT, GPT, vomiting, to evaluate methotrexate (MTX) serum levels al 24 hours and 48 hours after administration, and to analyze the correlation between MTX levels and MTX liver and blood toxicity. MATERIAL AND METHOD: We studied 39 immunocompromised children hospitalized in the IV-th Pediatric Clinic-Oncology Ward, between 1983-2005, with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); most of them exhibited defects of humoral immunity such as transitory hypogammaglobulinemia, and defects of the cellular immunity that accompanied hepatomegaly, hepatic cytolysis and biliary obstruction...
April 2008: Revista Medico-chirurgicală̆ a Societă̆ţ̜ii de Medici ş̧i Naturaliş̧ti Din Iaş̧i