Proteinuria due to increased dose of deferasirox in a pediatric patient with thalassemia major: case report

Authors

  • Hakan Sarbay Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Diyarbakir Children Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6332-2213
  • Mehtap Akbalik Kara Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Diyarbakir Children Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20184307

Keywords:

B-thalassemia, Deferasirox, Proteinuria

Abstract

Deferasirox is an iron chelator that used in B-thalassemia in worldwide. Nephrotoxicity is one of the common side effects of the deferasirox. Nephrotoxicity can be seen in the form of nephritis and tubulopathy. A 6-year-old male whose ferritin levels were above 3500 ng/mL is reported in this article. Deferasirox was increased from 30 mg/kg/day to 40 mg/kg/day because of the high levels of ferritin. In complete urinalysis of the patient after 3 weeks later +3 protein was detected, and spot urine protein/creatinine ratio was 2.5. In patient without symptoms and findings, deferasirox was discontinued. In his follow-ups, no proteinuria was detected in the complete urinalysis at the second week after the drug treatment was discontinued.

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Published

2018-10-22