Desmopressin Orally Disintegrating Tablet in Japanese Patients with Central Diabetes Insipidus: a Retrospective Study of Switching from Intranasal Desmopressin
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Endocrine Journal 2014, 61 (8), 773-779 ORIGINAL Desmopressin orally disintegrating tablet in Japanese patients with central diabetes insipidus: A retrospective study of switching from intranasal desmopressin Takaaki Murakami, Tomonobu Hatoko, Takuo Nambu, Yuki Matsuda, Koji Matsuo, Shin Yonemitsu, Seiji Muro and Shogo Oki Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, Osaka 543-0027, Japan Abstract. Central diabetes insipidus (CDI) is a rare disease characterized by polyuria and polydipsia. Patients with CDI have been successfully treated with desmopressin administered either by intranasal instillation or oral tablets. Recently, a desmopressin orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) was approved as the first oral desmopressin tablet for CDI treatment in Japan. We conducted a retrospective single-center study of 15 Japanese CDI patients treated with desmopressin ODT therapy, which aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of switching to desmopressin ODT and to analyze the clinical factors that affect the desmopressin ODT dose in Japanese patients. The daily mean dose of desmopressin ODT was 104 ± 46.30 μg and the mean ratio of oral to nasal desmopressin dose was 17.0 ± 7.6, both of which are considerably smaller than those of previous dose-titration study. Moreover, the nasal spray group needed significantly smaller ratios of nasal to oral desmopressin than the nasal drop group (11.7 ± 6.5 vs 21.0 ± 5.5, p = 0.02). The ratio of oral to nasal desmopressin dose had a significant inverse correlation with the required nasal desmopressin dose. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated the ratios of nasal to oral desmopressin dose depended on intranasal formulations. In conclusion, desmopressin ODT was safe and effective in the treatment of Japanese adult CDI patients. When switching to ODT, we should care about the possibility that patients require smaller ODT doses than what was initially expected based on previously published data and also nasal formulations in terms of their differences of expected switching ratio. Key words: Desmopressin, Orally disintegrating tablet, Diabetes insipidus CENTRAL DIABETES INSIPIDUS (CDI) is a rare pressin therapy has been reported to be as effective as disease characterized by polyuria and polydipsia due to intranasal therapy [2-4] and is preferred for most patients deficient synthesis and/or release of arginine vasopres- because of its convenience [5, 6]. Desmopressin orally sin (AVP). A number of acquired and congenital dis- disintegrating tablet (ODT) has been also widely avail- orders can cause CDI, all these etiologies are associ- able throughout world since it was approved in North ated with destruction of the magnocellular neurons in Europe in 2005. Desmopressin ODT has been reported the hypothalamus. Approximately 80% of the neurons to eliminate ingestion of extra fluids and to have higher may need to be damaged before CDI symptoms arise bioavailability than solid tablets [7]. [1]. The CDI clinical manifestation can vary depending In Japan, desmopressin had been primarily admin- on the extent of neuronal destruction. istered intranasally because oral desmopressin tablets Desmopressin is an AVP synthetic analogue, which were not approved. Desmopressin ODT was approved has been used to successfully treat CDI patients since as the first oral desmopressin tablet for CDI treatment in the 1970s. It’s usually administered through intranasal Japan in 2012. Until now, data regarding desmopressin instillation or in the form of oral tablets. Oral desmo- oral therapy in Japanese CDI patients have been very Submitted Mar. 4, 2014; Accepted May 7, 2014 as EJ14-0097 Authors’ contributions: Takaaki Murakami collected the data and Released online in J-STAGE as advance publication May 20, 2014 wrote the paper, Tomonobu Hatoko collected the data, Takuo Correspondence to: Takaaki Murakami, M.D., Department of Nambu contributed to making the diagnostic and statistic analysis, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, 5-30 Yuki Matsuda, Koji Matsuo, Shin Yonemitsu, Seiji Muro and Fudegasaki-cho, Tennoji-ku, Osaka 543-0027, Japan. Shogo Oki contributed to making the diagnostic and therapeutic E-mail: [email protected] decisions. ©The Japan Endocrine Society 774 Murakami et al. limited, although Fukuda et al. reported the efficacy of Spray 2.5 Kyowa (Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Tokyo, desmopressin solid tablets [8] and Arima et al. showed Japan), in the form of intranasal desmopressin and the efficacy of desmopressin ODT [9]. MinirinMelt® OD Tablet (Ferring Pharmaceuticals Here, we report a retrospective single-center study Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan, and Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., of 15 Japanese CDI patients treated with desmopressin Ltd. Tokyo, Japan) as ODT. Patients were adminis- ODT therapy. This study aimed to evaluate the effi- tered 60 μg desmopressin ODT just before bedtime. cacy and safety of switching to desmopressin ODT in The patients were required to take an additional des- Japanese patients. This is the first report on desmo- mopressin ODT over thirty minutes before or two pressin ODT therapy in Japanese CDI patients in real hours after meals if they had polydipsia or polyuria. clinical settings after it was approved in Japan. The They were allowed to split a desmopressin ODT in half study’s secondary objective was to analyze the clinical as accurately as possible with knife just before its use. factors that affect the desmopressin ODT dose required In this case, we counted the dose as 30 μg. Data after to maintain adequate antidiuretic effect, including switching to desmopressin ODT were collected when daily dose of intranasal desmopressin and clinical data daily doses of desmopressin were fixed for at least one at diagnosis. week. Treatment compliance was verified at each visit on the basis of interviews. Materials and Methods Laboratory methods Patients Plasma and urine osmolalities and serum sodium We conducted a retrospective single-center study at levels were determined by standard laboratory tech- Osaka Red Cross Hospital between Decamber 2012 niques. Plasma AVP was measured by radioimmuno- and November 2013. This study was approved by the assay (AVP-RIA Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Kagaku Iatron, institutional review board of Osaka Red Cross Hospital. Tokyo, Japan). Through chart review, we identified 15 patients who were prescribed desmopressin ODT for CDI treatment. Statistics Eligible patients were males or females who were 18 Statistical analyses were performed using Statcel3 years old or older with diagnosed CDI defined as pre- (OMS, Tokyo, Japan) and StatView 5.0 software (SAS viously reported [10]. The exclusion criteria included Institute, Inc., Cary, NC, USA). All data are expressed presence of uncorrected hypothyroidism or hypoadren- as mean ± SEM. Student’s or Welch’s t test, Wilcoxon alism as well as presence of a hypothalamus abnormal- signed-ranks test, and Spearman’s correlation coeffi- ity and dementia leading to thirst disorder. The daily cient by rank test were used. Multiple regression anal- dose of intranasal desmopressin of each eligible patient yses were used to determine whether the association was the same at two successive visits or was stable dur- between the dependent and independent variables of ing admission. In this study, as previously reported, interest remained significant after adjusting for other complete CDI was diagnosed when the urine osmola- potentially confounding independent variables. The lity was less than the plasma osmolality even after a statistical level of significance level wasp < 0.05. water-deprivation test and/or when there was an over 50% increase in the urine osmolality following admin- Results istration of vasopressin. In addition, partial CDI was defined as an over 10% rise in the urine osmolality fol- Baseline characteristics lowing administration of vasopressin, despite the urine The baseline characteristics of the 15 identified CDI osmolality being greater than the plasma osmolality patients are summarized in Table 1. Patients were aged after a water-deprivation test [10-14]. 26–86 years (mean 48.9 years) and five of 15 (33.3%) were male. The duration of diagnosed CDI was 1– 30 Study protocol years. Fourteen of 15 patients used intranasal desmo- This was a single-center retrospective study. Each pressin before switching to desmopressin ODT. Only eligible patient was treated with desmopressin ace- one patient was initiated on desmopressin ODT as the tate hydrate, Desmopressin Intranasal 0.01% Kyowa first-time desmopressin therapy. The CDI etiologies (Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Tokyo, Japan) or Desmopressin were lymphocytic hypophysitis (n = 3), Langerhans Oral desmopressin in diabetes insipidus 775 Table 1 Patient characteristics Age Osm. Increasing Nasal Nasal Oral Dose Nasal Oral No. (yrs) Sex Etiology AP ratio Type AVP ratio device dose dose ratio Weeks sodium sodium 1 26 F Idiopathic (-) 0.36 C N/A 250 D 7.5 60 8 12 140 N/A 2 48 F Lymphocytic hypophysitis L,FS,T,A 0.16 C 1.1 232 S 12.5 120 9.6 9 141 141 3 38 F Idiopathic (-) 0.93 C 1 N/A D 2.5 60 24 11 139 139 4 36 F Lymphocytic hypophysitis (-) N/A* C N/A* N/A* S 12.5 180 14.4 1 139 N/A 5 41 M Idiopathic FS.T 0.82 C N/A 118 S 5 120 24 27 142 N/A 6 36 M Langerhans cell histiocytosis (-) 0.23 C 0.9 807 D 7.5 180 24 26 140 N/A 7 66 F Idiopathic A 0.97 C 0.5 111 D 3.7 60 16.2 14 N/A N/A 8 77 F Idiopathic L,FS,T,A 0.83 C N/A 21. D 2.5 60 24 7 141 140 9 86 F Idiopathic (-) 0.69 C 0.7 N/A D 5 120 24 13 146 141 10 41 M Idiopathic (-) 1.43 P 1.5 17 S 20 120 6 9 141 140 11 53 M Lymphocytic hypophysitis (-) 1.12 P 0.8 61 S 15 60 4 14 143 N/A 12 42 F Idiopathic (-) 1.47 P 0.7 57 D 2.5 60 24 13 138 N/A 13 56 F Rathke’s cleft cyst (-) N/A N/A N/A N/A S 5 60 12 4 140 137 14 46 F Craniopharyngioma (-) N/A N/A N/A N/A No N/A 120 N/A 4 139 142 15 42 M Idiopathic L,FS,A N/A N/A N/A N/A D 7.5 180 24 16 138 133 yrs, years old; F, female; M, male; AP, Anterior pituitary dysfunction; L, LH; FS, FSH; A, ACTH; T, TSH; Osm.