Early treatment with terlipressin in patients with hepatorenal syndrome yields improved clinical outcomes in North American studies
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Abstract
Hepatorenal syndrome type 1 (HRS-1) is a serious complication of advanced cirrhosis and a potentially reversible form of acute kidney injury that is associated with rapidly deteriorating kidney function. Liver transplantation remains the only curative treatment for decompensated cirrhosis. However, terlipressin, a vasopressin analog, successfully reverses HRS-1, and may improve patient survival while awaiting liver transplantation. Patients with higher baseline serum creatinine have a reduced response to treatment with terlipressin. These post hoc analyses examined pooled data from 352 patients with HRS-1 treated with terlipressin in 3 North American-centric, Phase III, placebo-controlled clinical studies (i.e. OT-0401, REVERSE, and CONFIRM)-across 3 serum creatinine subgroups (i.e. <3, ≥3-<5, and ≥5 mg/dL)-to further delineate their correlation with HRS reversal, renal replacement therapy-free survival, and overall survival. Serum creatinine was significantly associated with HRS reversal in univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses (P<0.001). The incidence of HRS reversal inversely correlated with serum creatinine subgroup (<3 mg/dL, 49.2%; ≥3-<5 mg/dL, 28.0%; ≥5 mg/dL, 9.1%). At Day 30 follow-up, renal replacement therapy-free survival was significantly higher for patients with HRS-1 in the lower serum creatinine subgroups than in the higher subgroup (<5 vs. >5 mg/dL; p=0.01). Terlipressin-treated patients with HRS-1, with a lower baseline serum creatinine level, had a higher overall survival (p<0.001) and higher transplant-free survival at Day 90 (p=0.04). Patients with HRS-1 and lower serum creatinine levels who were treated with terlipressin had higher HRS reversal and survival outcomes, highlighting the significant need to identify and treat patients with HRS-1 early when they often have lower serum creatinine levels, and likely a greater response to terlipressin.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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