FDA Safety Communication: Boxed Warning on increased mortality and severe renal injury, and additional warning on risk of bleeding, for use of hydroxyethyl starch solutions in some settings
Date: June 24 2013Purpose: FDA has analyzed recent data that indicate an increased risk of (i) mortality and renal injury requiring renal replacement therapy in critically ill adult patients, including patients with sepsis and those admitted to the ICU; and (ii) excess bleeding particularly in patients undergoing open heart surgery in association with cardiopulmonary bypass. Additional caution regarding the use of these products is warranted.
Summary of Safety Issue
Recommendations for Patients
Recommendations for Health Professionals
Data Summary
Summary of Safety Issues
Hydroxyethyl starch (HES) solutions are used for the treatment of hypovolemia (low blood volume) when plasma volume expansion is desired. Recent data have associated the use of these products with an increased risk of severe adverse events when used in certain patient populations.On September 6-7, 2012, FDA convened a Public Workshop1 in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army Materiel Command, Department of Defense, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, Health and Human Services to discuss the risks and benefits of HES solutions. Panelists presented data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs), meta-analyses and observational studies (described in data summary) that showed increased mortality and/or renal injury requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT), i.e, severe renal injury, when HES was used in critically ill adult patients including patients with sepsis and those admitted to intensive care unit (ICU).
FDA has completed the analysis of data from the RCTs, meta-analyses and observational studies indicating increased mortality and renal injury requiring RRT in critically ill adult patients, including patients with sepsis and those admitted to the ICU who are treated with HES solutions. FDA has concluded that HES solutions should not be used in these patient populations, and a Boxed Warning to include the risk of mortality and severe renal injury is warranted. In addition, FDA has reviewed a meta-analysis of studies conducted in patients undergoing open heart surgery in association with cardiopulmonary bypass and has determined that an additional warning about excessive bleeding is needed in the Warnings and Precautions Section of the package insert.
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Recommendations for Patients
Patients should be aware of the risks associated with the use of HES solutions and discuss these risks with their healthcare provider- Be aware that severe kidney damage has been associated with the use of HES solutions.
- Be sure to follow up with your healthcare provider as requested and follow all instructions. Report any unusual symptoms immediately.
- Symptoms of kidney damage can include:
- change in the frequency, amount, or color of urine
- blood in the urine
- difficulty urinating
- swelling of the legs, ankles, feet, face, or hands
- unusual weakness or fatigue
- nausea and vomiting
- shortness of breath
Recommendations for Health Professionals
- Do not use HES solutions in critically ill adult patients including those with sepsis, and those admitted to the ICU.
- Avoid use in patients with pre-existing renal dysfunction.
- Discontinue use of HES at the first sign of renal injury.
- Need for renal replacement therapy has been reported up to 90 days after HES administration. Continue to monitor renal function for at least 90 days in all patients.
- Avoid use in patients undergoing open heart surgery in association with cardiopulmonary bypass due to excess bleeding.
- Discontinue use of HES at the first sign of coagulopathy.
Data Summary
Mortality and renal injury requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT)Four HES products are currently FDA approved for the treatment and prophylaxis of hypovolemia: HESPAN (6% HES 450/0.7a in Sodium Chloride Injection; B. Braun Medical Inc), Hetastarch (6%) in 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection (generic equivalent to HESPAN; Teva Pharmaceuticals USA), HEXTEND (6% HES 450/0.7 in physiological solution; BioTime Inc), and Voluven (6% HES 130/0.4 in normal saline; Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC)
Data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs), meta-analyses and observational studies show increased mortality and renal injury requiring RRT in critically ill patients, including patients with sepsis and those admitted to the ICU, and treated with HES. The safety of the higher molecular weight (molecular weight: 450 kDa) HES, (HESPAN, Hetastarch (6%) in 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection and HEXTEND) was assessed in retrospective studies and meta-analyses. Extrapolation of safety from the lower molecular weight HES to higher molecular weight HES is justified because of similarities in chemical structure and mechanism of action. In addition, both higher and lower molecular weight formulations are metabolized by α-amylase into similar smaller fragments until the renal threshold of excretion (45-60 kDa) is reached.2 This fact implies that there is exposure to smaller molecular weight fragments that are associated with toxicity when higher molecular weight HES is administered.
Renal injury was not evident in a review of 59 RCTs in which HES products were administered in the operating room to adult and pediatric patients who were undergoing surgery and were followed for a short period of time, < 7days.3 Possible explanations for this observation include low exposure levels; administration to a medically-optimized, comparatively healthy surgery population; follow-up monitoring for a brief period of time; and/or other unknown factor(s).
Based on the totality of the evidence, FDA considers increased mortality and renal injury requiring RRT in critically ill adult patients, including patients with sepsis and those admitted to the ICU, and excess bleeding in patients undergoing open heart surgery in association with cardiopulmonary bypass, to be HES class effects.
Randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses, and observational studies
Increased mortality and/or renal injury requiring RRT in critically ill adult patients including those with sepsis, and those admitted to the ICU have been reported in three double-blind, multicenter RCTs published in 2012 comparing HES with crystalloid solution in which treated patients were monitored for 90 days.
- The 6S study compared 6% HES 130/0.42 with Ringer's acetate for treatment of hypovolemia in a large population (N=804) of severe sepsis patients. Death or dialysis-dependence at 90 days were co-primary endpoints; incidence of RRT was a secondary endpoint. Total volume of trial fluid administered (median) was 1500 mL on Day 1, 1500 mL on Day 2, and 1000 mL on Day 3. Mortality (201/398 vs. 172/400; p=0.03) increased independently of increased RRT (87/398 vs. 65/400; p=0.04) in the HES treatment arm. This well-conducted study demonstrated both increased mortality and serious renal injury at labeled doses of HES, confirming its toxicity.4
- The CRYSTMAS study compared 6% HES 130/0.4 with normal saline in a smaller population (N=196) of severe sepsis patients than 6S. Volume of trial fluid needed to achieve hemodynamic stabilization was the primary endpoint; RRT was a secondary endpoint. Total volume of trial fluid administered (median) was 1000 mL on Day 1, and 500 mL/day on Days 2, 3 and 4, respectively. The difference in mortality was in the direction of an increase with Voluven (40/100 vs. 32/96), but did not reach statistical significance (p=0.33). A trend to increased RRT (p=0.06) was reported in the HES treatment arm (21/100 vs. 11/96).5
- The CHEST study compared 6% HES 130/0.40 with normal saline in a heterogeneous adult ICU population (N=7000) that included patients with sepsis (N=1937) as well as elective surgery patients and patients with APACHE II score ≥ 25. The primary endpoint was death or dialysis dependency at Day 90. Total volume of trial fluid administered (median) was 1000 mL on Day 0, and 500 mL/day on Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. The difference in mortality (597/3315 vs. 566/3336) did not reach statistical significance. HES subjects experienced significantly greater need for RRT (235/3315 vs. 196/3336, p=0.04), but the incidence of RRT in the sepsis subgroup was not reported.6
- A Cochrane Collaboration meta-analysis of 34 RCTs using different HES products (130/0.4, 200/0.5, 200/0.6, 70/0.5, 200/0.62, and 450/0.7) to treat hypovolemia found that in a subgroup of studies that captured RRT (9 studies, N=1333) or author-defined kidney failure (12 studies, N=1260) as secondary kidney outcomes, a significant increase was observed in HES-treated sepsis patients; this was not observed in HES-treated trauma/surgery patients. The HES used in these studies included 6% HES 130/0.4 (Voluven), 6% HES 130/0.42, 6% HES 200/0.6, and 10% HES 200/0.5.7
- Increased mortality and renal injury requiring RRT were reported in four meta-analyses of RCTs in which different HES formulations were used for fluid resuscitation in critically ill adult patients (N=3156 to 10,391), including patients with sepsis, and those admitted to the ICU. The preponderance of these studies used 6% HES 130/0.4-0.042. 8,9,10,11
- A single-arm, prospective, observational analysis of adults with severe sepsis (N=1046) who received only one type of colloid for hypovolemia over a 6-year study period reported increased RRT in those receiving Voluven (relative risk, 2.01; 95% CI, 1.34 to 3.02; p<0 .001="" 2004="" 2006="" 2008="" 2010.="" compared="" crystalloid="" from="" receiving="" sup="" those="" to="">12
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Excess bleeding
In a meta-analysis of 18 RCTs in patients undergoing open heart surgery in association with cardiopulmonary bypass,15 use of different HES products, irrespective of molecular weight or degree of molar substitution, was associated with increased bleeding. FDA considers excess bleeding a class effect warranting addition of this new safety information to the Warning and Precautions Section of the PI.top
References
- Public Workshop – Risks and Benefits of Hydroxyethyl Starch Solutions
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/NewsEvents/WorkshopsMeetingsConferences/ucm313370.htm - Westphal M, James MFM, Kozek-Langenecker S, et al. Hydroxyethyl starches: different products – different effects. Anesthesiology 2009;111:187-202
- Van der Linden P, James M, Mythen M, et al. Safety of modern starches used during surgery. Anesth Analg 2013;116:35-48
- Perner A, Haase N, Guttormsen AB, et al. Hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 versus Ringer's acetate in severe sepsis. N Engl J Med 2012;367:124-34. [Erratum, N Engl J Med 2012;367:481]
- Guidet B, Martinet O, Boulain T, et al. Assessment of hemodynamic efficacy and safety of 6% hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 vs. 0.9% NaCl fluid replacement in patients with severe sepsis: The CRYSTMAS study. Critical Care 2012, 16:R94
- Myburgh JA, Finfer S, Bellomo R, et al. Hydroxyethyl starch or saline for fluid resuscitation in intensive care. N Engl J Med 2012;367:1901-11
- Dart AB, Mutter TC, Ruth CA, et al. Hydroxyethyl starch (HES) versus other fluid therapies: effects on kidney function. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010;Jan 20;1:CD007594
- Haase N, Perner A, Hennings LI, et al. Hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.38-0.45 versus crystalloid or albumin in patients with sepsis: systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis. BMJ 2013;1839 doi: 10.1136/bmj.f839
- Gattas DJ, Dan A, Myburgh J, et al. Fluid resuscitation with 6% hydroxyethyl starch (130/0.4 and 130/0.42) in acutely ill patients: systemic review of effects on mortality and treatment with renal replacement therapy. Intensive Care Med 2013; doi 10.1007/s00134-013-2840-0
- Zarychanski R, Abou-Setta AM, Turgeon AF et al. Association of hydoxyethyl starch administration with mortality and acute kidney injury in critically ill patients requiring volume resuscitation: a systemic review and meta-analysis. JAMA 2013;309:678-688
- Patel A, Waheed U, Brett SJ. Randomised trials of 6% tetrastarch (hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 or 0.42) for severe sepsis reporting mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis. Intensive Care Med 2013; DOI 10.1007/s00134-013-2863-6
- Bayer O, Reinhart K, Kohl M, et al. Effects of fluid resuscitation with synthetic colloids alone on shock reversal, fluid balance, and patient outcomes in patients with severe sepsis: a prospective sequential analysis. Crit Care Med 2012;40:2543-2551
- Rioux JP, Lessard M, De Bortoli B, et al. Pentastarch 10% (250 kDa/0.45) is an independent risk factor of acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery. Critical care medicine 2009;37: 1293-1298
- Lissauer ME, Chi A, Kramer ME, et al. Association of 6% Hetastarch resuscitation with adverse outcomes in critically ill trauma patients. Am J Surgery 2011;202:53-8
- Navickis RJ, Haynes GR, Wilkes MM. Effect of hydroxyethyl starch on bleeding after cardiopulmonary bypass: a meta-analysis of randomized trials. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2012:144:223-30
aHES nomenclature comprises two numbers separated by a slash: molecular weight in kD and degree of substitution (percent of CH2CH2OH groups per glucose subunit of the polymer).
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