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Bożenna Dembowska-Bagińska1, Jolanta Więckowska1, Agnieszka Brożyna1, Ewa Święszkowska1, Hor Ismail2, Dorota Broniszczak-Czyszek2, Marek Stefanowicz2, Wiesława Grajkowska3, Piotr Kaliciński2.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the health status of children cured from hepatoblastoma. Forty-five patients with hepatoblastoma treated between 1996-2014 were assessed. The recorded data included sex, age at diagnosis, disease stage, treatment methods, time since diagnosis, and the evaluation of health status domains which included performance status, growth development, hearing, cardiovascular, skeletal, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, neurological, and hematological function. There were 30 boys and 15 girls. The age at diagnosis ranged from one month to 14 years (median one year). At the time of the health status evaluation, the youngest patient was 5.5 years old and the oldest was 21 years of age (median-10 years). All patients were treated according to the Childhood Liver Tumors Strategy Group-SIOPEL recommendations, though they were not active participants of the studies. The median cumulative dose of cisplatin was 520 mg/m2 and 360 mg/m2 for doxorubicin. Thirty-six patients underwent partial hepatectomy, and nine total hepatectomy and liver transplantation. At a median of nine years from diagnosis, 68% of hepatoblastoma survivors had experienced at least one chronic health condition of any grade. The most frequent late complication was ototoxicity (28.8%), and the most serious were second malignancies (6.6%) and cardiomyopathy (4.4%).Entities:
Keywords: children; follow-up; hepatoblastoma; long-term health status; survivors
Year: 2019 PMID: 31718024 PMCID: PMC6895795 DOI: 10.3390/cancers11111777
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancers (Basel) ISSN: 2072-6694 Impact factor: 6.639
Figure 1Distribution of percentiles for height.
Figure 2Distribution of percentiles for body mass index (BMI).
Characteristics of patients treated with liver transplantation (n = 9).
| No/Male | Age at Diagnosis | Age at Transplan-Tation | Indications for Transplantation | Age at Last Follow-up | Late Complications/Outcome | Other Late Effects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.M | 5 m | 10 m | POSTEXT* III | 10 y | Biliary complications—retransplantation two years later, 3rd transplantation within next 1 month due to primary poor function of the graft. During the next eight years several percutaneous transvascular balloon dilatations and stenting of the hepatic vein to inferior caval vein anastomosis were performed. | Brock 3 hearing impairment-hearing aids |
| 2.M | 2 y | 2 y 4 m | POSTEXT IV | 16 y | None | None |
| 3.F | 7 m | 1 y | POSTEXT III | 13 y | None | Underweight |
| 4.F | 1 y 4 m | 1 y10 m | POSTEXT IV | 14 y | Eight years from transplantation-hypersplenism due to portal vein thrombosis, treated successfully with partial splenic embolization. | Hypertension |
| 5.M | 14 y | 14.5 y | POSTEXT IV | 20 y | None | Hypertension, proteinuria |
| 6.M | 1 y 7 m | 1 y 9 m | 7 y | None | Underweight BMI-16 | |
| 7.M | 11 m | 1 y 2 m | POSTEXT IV | 6 y | None | None |
| 8.M | 3 y 10 | 4 y | POSTEXT IV | 9 y | Late biliary anastomotic stenosis which was treated successfully with percutaneous transhepatic balloon dilatation | Underweight |
| 9.M | 1 m | 4 y | biliary cirrhosis four years from the primary resection of large volume tumor | 6 y | 1.5 years after transplantation-thrombocytopenia treated successfully with steroid pulses and rituximab. Single percutaneous balloon dilatation of portal vein anastomosis. | BMI 16, height <3 percentile |
POSTEXT*—staging of tumor extent after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Figure 3Adverse health outcomes.