Hypokalemia and Hyponatremia in Adult Patients Receiving Voriconazole Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

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Hypokalemia and hyponatremia are common but easily ignored adverse events in treatment with voriconazole (VCZ) that can lead to serious consequences. We intend to investigate the incidence of VCZ-induced hypokalemia and hyponatremia and their risk factors based on real-world data. A prospective study was conducted. A total of 272 patients with 414 VCZ plasma trough concentrations (C0) and VCZ N-oxide concentrations (CN) were included. The incidence of hypokalemia was 18.0% (48/266). A total of 81.2% (39/48) of patients developed hypokalemia within 14 days, whereas 56.2% (27/48) of patients developed hypokalemia within 1 week. The proportion of female patients in the hypokalemia group was higher than that in the nonhypokalemia group, as was the proportion of patients receiving intravenous VCZ. In the multivariate analysis, the independent risk factors for hypokalemia were sex, combined use of antibiotics, and VCZ CN/C0. The incidence of hyponatremia was 7.9% (21/266). The proportion of patients over 47 years of age in the hyponatremia group was 71.4% (15/21). The number of days of VCZ use in the hyponatremia group was greater than that in the nonhyponatremia group. A total of 47.6% (10/21) of patients in the hyponatremia group had supratherapeutic VCZ C0 (>5.0 µg/mL). In conclusion, hypokalemia is more likely to occur in females, in patients receiving intravenous VCZ, and in patients with the combined use of antibiotics. Hyponatremia is more likely to occur in patients older than 47 years who have been using VCZ for a long time and have higher VCZ C0 values.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:64

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Journal of clinical pharmacology - 64(2024), 4 vom: 01. Apr., Seite 461-468

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cheng, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Zhirui [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Mingjie [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Xiong, Lirong [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Qing [VerfasserIn]

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Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antifungal Agents
Hypokalemia
Hyponatremia
JFU09I87TR
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Therapeutic drug monitoring
Voriconazole
Voriconazole N‐oxide

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Date Completed 28.03.2024

Date Revised 22.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/jcph.2381

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364019220