Thrombosis Complications in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Risk Factors, Management, and Prevention: Is There Any Role for Pharmacologic Prophylaxis?

Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has achieved close to 90% cure rates through extensive collaborative and integrative molecular research, clinical studies, and advances in supportive care. Despite this high achievement, venous thromboembolic complications (VTE) remain one of the most com...

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Main Author: Vilmarie Rodriguez
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2022.828702/full
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description Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has achieved close to 90% cure rates through extensive collaborative and integrative molecular research, clinical studies, and advances in supportive care. Despite this high achievement, venous thromboembolic complications (VTE) remain one of the most common and potentially preventable therapy-associated adverse events in ALL. The majority of thromboses events involve the upper central venous system which is related to the use and location of central venous catheters (CVC). The reported rates of symptomatic and asymptomatic CVC-related VTE range from 2.6 to 36.7% and 5.9 to 43%, respectively. Thrombosis can negatively impact not only disease-free survival [e.g., therapy delays and/or interruption, omission of chemotherapy agents (e.g., asparaginase therapy)] but also can result in long-term adverse effects that can impair the quality of life of ALL survivors (e.g., post-thrombotic syndrome, central nervous system (CNS)-thrombosis related complications: seizures, neurocognitive deficits). In this review, will discuss thrombosis pathophysiology in pediatric ALL, risk factors, treatment, and prevention strategies. In addition, the recently published clinical efficacy and safety of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) use in thrombosis treatment, and their potential role in primary/secondary thrombosis prevention in pediatric patients with ALL will be discussed. Future clinical trials involving the use of these novel oral anticoagulants should be studied in ALL not only for primary thrombosis prevention but also in the treatment of thrombosis and its secondary prevention. These future research findings could potentially extrapolate to VTE prevention strategies in other pediatric cancer diagnoses and children considered at high risk for VTE.
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spelling doaj.art-fbccea6333344e1085b31cae6ceee1372022-12-21T18:42:28ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Pediatrics2296-23602022-03-011010.3389/fped.2022.828702828702Thrombosis Complications in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Risk Factors, Management, and Prevention: Is There Any Role for Pharmacologic Prophylaxis?Vilmarie RodriguezPediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has achieved close to 90% cure rates through extensive collaborative and integrative molecular research, clinical studies, and advances in supportive care. Despite this high achievement, venous thromboembolic complications (VTE) remain one of the most common and potentially preventable therapy-associated adverse events in ALL. The majority of thromboses events involve the upper central venous system which is related to the use and location of central venous catheters (CVC). The reported rates of symptomatic and asymptomatic CVC-related VTE range from 2.6 to 36.7% and 5.9 to 43%, respectively. Thrombosis can negatively impact not only disease-free survival [e.g., therapy delays and/or interruption, omission of chemotherapy agents (e.g., asparaginase therapy)] but also can result in long-term adverse effects that can impair the quality of life of ALL survivors (e.g., post-thrombotic syndrome, central nervous system (CNS)-thrombosis related complications: seizures, neurocognitive deficits). In this review, will discuss thrombosis pathophysiology in pediatric ALL, risk factors, treatment, and prevention strategies. In addition, the recently published clinical efficacy and safety of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) use in thrombosis treatment, and their potential role in primary/secondary thrombosis prevention in pediatric patients with ALL will be discussed. Future clinical trials involving the use of these novel oral anticoagulants should be studied in ALL not only for primary thrombosis prevention but also in the treatment of thrombosis and its secondary prevention. These future research findings could potentially extrapolate to VTE prevention strategies in other pediatric cancer diagnoses and children considered at high risk for VTE.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2022.828702/fullthrombosisanticoagulationacute lymphoblastic leukemiarisk factorsoutcomes
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Thrombosis Complications in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Risk Factors, Management, and Prevention: Is There Any Role for Pharmacologic Prophylaxis?
Frontiers in Pediatrics
thrombosis
anticoagulation
acute lymphoblastic leukemia
risk factors
outcomes
title Thrombosis Complications in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Risk Factors, Management, and Prevention: Is There Any Role for Pharmacologic Prophylaxis?
title_full Thrombosis Complications in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Risk Factors, Management, and Prevention: Is There Any Role for Pharmacologic Prophylaxis?
title_fullStr Thrombosis Complications in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Risk Factors, Management, and Prevention: Is There Any Role for Pharmacologic Prophylaxis?
title_full_unstemmed Thrombosis Complications in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Risk Factors, Management, and Prevention: Is There Any Role for Pharmacologic Prophylaxis?
title_short Thrombosis Complications in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Risk Factors, Management, and Prevention: Is There Any Role for Pharmacologic Prophylaxis?
title_sort thrombosis complications in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk factors management and prevention is there any role for pharmacologic prophylaxis
topic thrombosis
anticoagulation
acute lymphoblastic leukemia
risk factors
outcomes
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2022.828702/full
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