Oral antiviral therapies for COVID-19 in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease or kidney failure.
Oral antiviral therapies for COVID-19 in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease or kidney failure.
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针对晚期慢性肾病或肾衰竭患者的 COVID-19 口服抗病毒疗法。
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10.1093/ndt/gfad058
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2023
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Sise,MeghanE
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Cho,WonkyungJ;Harden,Destiny;Moreno,Daiana;Dinulos,JamesE;Hanna,PaulE;Wang,Qiyu;Kim,ArthurY;Sise,MeghanE
As of December 2022, over 651 million people have been diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 6.6 million people have died of COVID-19 [1]. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important independent risk factor for hospitalization and death due to COVID-19 [2, 3]. Although case fatality has decreased since the introduction of effective vaccines, patients with advanced CKD and kidney failure requiring kidney replacement therapy remain at high risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes; a recent report by Bell and colleagues found a 7% 30-day mortality risk after COVID-19 diagnosis in fully vaccinated patients with kidney failure [4]. Vaccine effectiveness may be attenuated in patients with kidney failure, and monoclonal therapies are no longer effective against current Omicron variants [5, 6]. Thus, there is a pressing need for effective antiviral therapies to decrease morbidity and mortality in this population. Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir and molnupiravir each received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration in December 2021. Patients with advanced CKD [estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)< 30 mL/min/1.73 m2] and kidney failure were excluded from the trials that led to the approval of these agents [7, 8]. The EUA for molnupiravir includes all levels of eGFR because pharmacokinetic studies demonstrated that kidney impairment had a small impact on drug levels [8]; however, there are limited data on its use in advanced CKD and kidney failure. In contrast, a pharmacokinetic study of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir demonstrated significantly higher drug exposures in patients with impaired kidney function which led to the recommendation that the dose be reduced to 150/100 mg twice daily for patients with eGFR 30–59 mL/min/1.73 m2, and that nirmatrelvir/ritonavir be avoided in patients with eGFR< 30 mL/min/1.73 m2 [9]. Because limited data exist on the use of either molnupiravir or nirmatrelvir/ritonavir in patients with eGFR< 30 mL/min/1.73 m2, we sought to characterize real-world use within our healthcare network.In a large healthcare system providing care for 1.5 million patients in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, we identified patients who were prescribed molnupiravir or nirmatrelvir/ritonavir between January and October 2022, during which Omicron and its subvariants have been the predominant strains in the USA [10]. We included those with eGFR< 30 mL/min/1.73 m2 or kidney failure before beginning oral antiviral therapy. We defined baseline eGFR as the median of all eGFR measurements between 14 and 365 days prior to diagnosis of COVID-19 [11]. We reviewed all clinical documentation between the start date and 4 weeks after therapy completion to identify potential adverse events (AEs). This study was approved by the Mass General Brigham Institutional Review Board; the need for informed consent was waived.