Pazopanib for severe bleeding and transfusion-dependent anemia in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

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Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare angiogenic disorder causing chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, epistaxis, and severe anemia. Pazopanib is an oral multi-kinase angiogenesis inhibitor with promise to treat bleeding in HHT. We analyzed outcomes of HHT patients with the most severe bleeding causing RBC transfusion dependence treated on a predefined institutional pazopanib treatment pathway (with data collected retrospectively). The primary endpoint was achievement of transfusion independence. Secondary endpoints included hemoglobin, epistaxis severity score, RBC transfusion and iron infusion requirements, number of local hemostatic procedures, ferritin and transferrin saturation, compared using paired and repeated measures mean tests. Thirteen transfusion-dependent HHT patients received pazopanib [median (range) dose 150 (25-300) mg daily)] for a median of 22 months. All patients achieved transfusion independence. Compared with pretreatment, pazopanib increased mean hemoglobin by 4.8 (95% CI, 3.6-5.9) g/dL (7.8 vs. 12.7 g/dL, P < 0.0001) and decreased mean epistaxis severity score by 4.77 (3.11-6.44) points (7.20 vs. 2.43 points, P < 0.0001) after 12 months of treatment. Compared with 3 months of pretreatment, RBC transfusions decreased by 93% (median of 16.0 vs. 0.0 units, P < 0.0001) and elemental iron infusion decreased by 92% (median of 4500 vs. 0 mg, P = 0.005) during the first 3 months of treatment; improvements were maintained over time. Pazopanib was well-tolerated: hypertension, lymphocytopenia, and fatigue were the most common TEAEs. In conclusion, pazopanib was safe and effective to manage severe bleeding in HHT, liberating all patients from transfusion dependence and normalizing hematologic parameters at doses lower than used to treat malignancies. These findings require confirmation in a randomized trial.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Angiogenesis - 25(2022), 1 vom: 22. Feb., Seite 87-97

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Parambil, Joseph G [VerfasserIn]
Gossage, James R [VerfasserIn]
McCrae, Keith R [VerfasserIn]
Woodard, Troy D [VerfasserIn]
Menon, K V Narayanan [VerfasserIn]
Timmerman, Kasi L [VerfasserIn]
Pederson, Douglas P [VerfasserIn]
Sprecher, Dennis L [VerfasserIn]
Al-Samkari, Hanny [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

7RN5DR86CK
Anemia
Angiogenesis
Bleeding
Epistaxis
Gastrointestinal bleeding
HHT
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
Indazoles
Iron deficiency
Journal Article
Osler-Weber-Rendu
Pazopanib
Pyrimidines
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sulfonamides

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Date Completed 17.02.2022

Date Revised 18.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10456-021-09807-4

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM328374008