Bedaquiline for the Treatment of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in the United States

Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019..

BACKGROUND: In 2012, the Food and Drug Administration approved use of bedaquiline fumarate as part of combination therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB). We describe treatment outcomes, safety, and tolerability of bedaquiline in our case series.

METHODS: Data on patients started on bedaquiline for MDR TB between September 2012 and August 2016 were collected retrospectively through 4 TB programs using a standardized abstraction tool. Data were analyzed using univariate methods. Adverse events were graded using the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events.

RESULTS: Of 14 patients, 7 (50%) had MDR, 4 (29%) had pre-extensively drug-resistant (XDR), and 3 (21%) had XDR TB. All had pulmonary TB, 5 (36%) had pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB, and 9/13 (69%) were smear positive. One patient (7%) had HIV coinfection, 5 (36%) had diabetes mellitus, and 5/14 (36%) had previous treatment TB. All patients were non-US-born and 5/14 (36%) had private insurance. All patients achieved sputum culture conversion within a mean of 71 days (26-116); 5 after starting bedaquiline. Twelve (86%) completed treatment and 1 (7%) moved out of the country. One patient (7%) had QTc prolongation >500 milliseconds and died 20 months after discontinuing bedaquiline of a cause not attributable to the drug. Common adverse events were peripheral neuropathy 7/14 (50%), not customarily associated with bedaquiline use, and QTc prolongation 6/14 (43%).

CONCLUSIONS: Of 14 patients, 1 (7%) had an adverse event necessitating bedaquiline discontinuation. Safety, culture conversion, and treatment completion in this series (7%) support use of bedaquiline for the treatment of MDR/XDR TB.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:71

Enthalten in:

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 71(2020), 4 vom: 14. Aug., Seite 1010-1016

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mase, Sundari [VerfasserIn]
Chorba, Terence [VerfasserIn]
Parks, Samuel [VerfasserIn]
Belanger, Ann [VerfasserIn]
Dworkin, Felicia [VerfasserIn]
Seaworth, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Warkentin, Jon [VerfasserIn]
Barry, Pennan [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Neha [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

78846I289Y
Adverse event
Antitubercular Agents
Bedaquiline
Diarylquinolines
Journal Article
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Outcome
Treatment

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 27.04.2021

Date Revised 29.01.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/cid/ciz914

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM301646716