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J Otten

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Reversible cardiopathy after accidental overdose of mitoxantrone.

Mitoxantrone is an anthraquinone structurally related to the anthracycline drugs doxorubicin and daunorubicin. In animal tumor models, it was equally cytotoxic as but less cardiotoxic than the parent compounds. We here describe the clinical course of a 9-year old girl who inadvertently received 100 mg/m2 of mitoxantrone as a bolus injection. Hemoperfusion carried out twice with the objective of increasing the drug clearance was totally inefficient. Severe but transient myelotoxicity was induced. Sequential echocardiograms demonstrated a reversible decrease of the shortening fraction of the left ventricle.

Acute Disease↗

[Acute myeloblastosis in von Jaksch-Luzet syndrome].

A 7 month-old infant of Italian origin, who was given a vitamin-D deficient diet developed a Von Jaksch-Luzet syndrome with more than 20% myeloblasts in the bone marrow. Plasma levels of vitamin D metabolites wer low and parathormone levels were high. A low dose of vitamin D3 (2,000 IU cholecalciferol/day) resulted in the recovery of a normal phosphocalcic balance and in the disappearance of myeloblastosis.

Calcifediol↗