Safety profile of D-penicillamine : a comprehensive pharmacovigilance analysis by FDA adverse event reporting system

BACKGROUND: D-penicillamine (D-pen) is a copper-chelating drug and has immune-modulatory properties. D-pen is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, Wilson's disease, and kidney stones (cystinuria). However, associated adverse events (AEs) of D-pen treatment are frequent and often serious. Therefore, a comprehensive assessment of the safety profile of D-pen is urgently needed.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We identified and analyzed AEs associated with D-pen between April-1970 to July-2020 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) databases and calculated the reported odds ratio (ROR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) using the disproportionality analysis.

RESULTS: A total of 9,150,234 AEs related to drugs were reported in the FAERS database, of which 542 were related to D-Pen. We report that D-pen was associated with dystonia (ROR: 20.52; 95%CI: 12.46-33.80), drug hypersensitivity (ROR: 5.42; 95%CI: 3.72-7.90), pancytopenia (ROR: 10.20; 95%CI: 5.61-18.56), joint swelling (ROR: 9.07; 95%CI: 5.51-14.94), renal-impairment (ROR: 6.68; 95%CI: 3.67-12.15), dysphagia (ROR: 5.05; 95%CI: 2.76-8.89), aggravation of condition (ROR: 4.16; 95%CI: 2.60-6.67), congestive cardiac failure (ROR: 4.04; 95%CI: 2.22-7.35), peripheral edema (ROR: 3.77; 95%CI: 2.17-6.55), tremor (ROR: 3.46; 95%CI: 2.00-6.01), pyrexia (ROR: 3.46; 95%CI: 2.00-6.01), and gait disturbance (ROR: 2.41; 95%CI: 1.29-4.52).

CONCLUSIONS: Patients taking D-pen require close monitoring of renal function, blood counts, immunity, liver, cardiac function, and neurological function. D-pen suppresses immune system which maximizes the risk of infection.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Expert opinion on drug safety - 20(2021), 11 vom: 04. Nov., Seite 1443-1450

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kumar, Vijay [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Anand Prakash [VerfasserIn]
Wheeler, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Galindo, Cristi L [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Jong-Joo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chelating Agents
Cystinuria
D-penicillamine
FAERS
GNN1DV99GX
Journal Article
Penicillamine
Pharmacovigilance analysis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Wilson’s disease

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Date Completed 03.11.2021

Date Revised 27.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/14740338.2021.1956460

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM328047457