NTBC Treatment Monitoring in Chilean Patients with Tyrosinemia Type 1 and Its Association with Biochemical Parameters and Liver Biomarkers

Journal of Clinical Medicine

María Jesús Leal-Witt¹  Carolina Arias¹  Valerie Hamilton¹  Felipe Peñaloza¹  Karen Fuenzalida¹  Patricio Guerrero¹  Verónica Cornejo¹  María Florencia Salazar¹ 

[1] Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de Alimentos INTA, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 7830490, Chile;

关键词: tyrosinemia type-1;    nitisinone;    succinylacetone;    alpha fetoprotein;    liver biomarkers;   

DOI  :  10.3390/jcm10245832

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Treatment and follow-up in Hereditary Tyrosinemia type 1 (HT-1) patients require comprehensive clinical and dietary management, which involves drug therapy with NTBC and the laboratory monitoring of parameters, including NTBC levels, succinylacetone (SA), amino acids, and various biomarkers of liver and kidney function. Good adherence to treatment and optimal adjustment of the NTBC dose, according to clinical manifestations and laboratory parameters, can prevent severe liver complications such as hepatocarcinogenesis (HCC). We analyzed several laboratory parameters for 15 HT-1 patients over one year of follow-up in a cohort that included long-term NTBC-treated patients (more than 20 years), as well as short-term patients (one year). Based on this analysis, we described the overall adherence by our cohort of 70% adherence to drug and dietary treatment. A positive correlation was found between blood and plasma NTBC concentration with a conversion factor of 2.57. Nonetheless, there was no correlation of the NTBC level with SA levels, αFP, liver biomarkers, and amino acids in paired samples analysis. By separating according to the range of the NTBC concentration, we therefore determined the mean concentration of each biochemical marker, for NTBC ranges above 15–25 μmol/L. SA in urine and αFP showed mean levels within controlled parameters in our group of patients. Future studies analyzing a longer follow-up period, as well as SA determination in the blood, are encouraged to confirm the present findings.

【 授权许可】

Unknown