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Are glomerular filtration rate estimations necessary before high dose methotrexate?
H Rees1, I M Hann, J M Chessells
1Department of Haematology, Camelia Botnar Laboratories, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London WC1N 3JH, UK.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|September 18, 1999
Abstract:
Glomerular filtration rates (GFR) were estimated in 168 children (227 estimates) before treatment for haematological malignancies with high dose, intravenous methotrexate. Clinical management was altered on the basis of GFR in only two cases, both of whom had tumour lysis syndrome. Routine estimations of GFR do not contribute to management.