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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Res. 2019 Dec 5;87(7):1185–1192. doi: 10.1038/s41390-019-0684-1

Table 2.

Systemic surveillance of CF toxicity

CF saline CF saline
creatinine (mg/dl) blood urea nitrogen (BUN, mg/dl)
days after injection mean SD number mean SD number mean SD number mean SD number
0 0.52 0.06 10 0.58 0.04 6 10.1 2.6 10 10.8 2.8 6
1 0.57 0.05 7 0.55 0.06 4 13.3 2.9 7 10.0 1.2 4
2 0.54 0.05 7 0.55 0.06 4 10.9 1.7 7 10.0 0.8 4
7 0.55 0.06 4 0.60 0.00 3 10.0 0.0 4 11.7 2.5 3
28 0.67 0.06 3 0.70 0.00 3 12.3 1.2 3 10.0 1.0 3
AST (U/L) ALT (U/L)
0 32.9 31.3 10 20.3 7.9 6 30.6 7.3 10 27.5 7.5 6
1 17.1 14.5 7 13.3 4.0 4 35.1 12.1 7 31.5 5.1 4
2 19.9 13.4 7 26.3 13.2 4 23.6 4.9 7 31.3 6.3 4
7 17.0 5.8 4 20.7 3.5 3 19.5 2.4 4 22.3 8.6 3
28 23.7 10.8 3 24.0 9.5 3 24.7 2.5 3 33.3 9.5 3
iron (U/L) anion gap (Meq/L)
0 191.8 40.2 10 211.8 26.0 6 16.1 2.2 10 16.2 1.6 6
1 109.3 84.0 7 222.5 13.0 4 16.3 1.8 7 15.3 1.5 4
2 218.0 40.3 7 226.5 14.4 4 13.1 2.3 7 12.0 2.9 4
7 242.3 47.6 4 242.3 26.4 3 18.0 2.7 4 14.3 4.9 3
28 217.7 14.0 3 178.7 51.4 3 12.0 4.4 3 13.0 1.0 3
white blood cell (k/mcl) platelets (k/mcl)
0 5.9 0.9 10 6.5 1.4 6 189.9 44.6 10 238.7 32.9 6
1 8.8 1.9 7 5.4 0.9 3 159.3 21.9 7 276.0 90.7 3
2 11.4 1.0 6 4.0 1.2 4 272.0 53.5 6 300.5 98.5 4
7 6.8 0.8 4 5.8 2.0 3 233.8 79.9 4 237.7 30.9 3
28 2.3 1.5 3 3.6 1.8 3 238.0 37.2 3 261.7 66.5 3
***

The bolded values were statistically significantly different, iron day 1, p=0.001; WBC day 1, p=0.003, day 2, p<0.001; platelets day 1, p=0.02