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ArticlePediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2024

Pharmacovigilance of nephrotoxic drugs in neonates: the Pottel method for acute kidney injury detection in ELBW neonates.

Mathilde Dumoulin, Hans Pottel, Djalila Mekahli, Annouschka Laenen, Anne Smits, Karel Allegaert

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  1. Research progress on biomarkers for acute kidney injury in children.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mathilde DumoulinDepartment of Paediatrics, Leuven University Hospitals, Louvain, Belgium.ORCID 0009-0000-8215-2013
Hans PottelDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven Campus Kulak, Kortrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0074-8919
Djalila MekahliDepartment of Pediatric Nephrology, Leuven University Hospitals, Louvain, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0954-6088
Annouschka LaenenLeuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Center (L-BioStat), KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-1371-442X
Anne SmitsDepartment of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Louvain, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-0710-6698
Karel AllegaertDepartment of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Louvain, Belgium. k.allegaert@erasmusmc.nl.ORCID 0000-0001-9921-5105
KU Leuven · BEErasmus MC · NLStatistics Belgium · BE

Funding

Senior Clinical Investigatorship of the Research Foundation–Flanders (FWO)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundExtremely low birth weight (ELBW) neonates (birth weight ≤ 1000 g) are at high risk to develop drug-induced acute kidney injury (AKI). However, we lack a pragmatic detection tool to capture their time-dependent (patho)physiologic serum creatinine (Scr) patterns. Pottel et al. suggested rescaling Scr by dividing Scr with the mean Scr value of the age- and sex-specific reference population. We explored if this Pottel method can detect drug-related nephrotoxicity in ELBW neonates.

methodsA previously reported dataset on Scr changes in ELBW neonates exposed to ibuprofen, amikacin, or vancomycin was updated to calculate Pottel scores for every available Scr value in the first 28 postnatal days. We hereby used previously published postnatal age-specific 50

resultsSerum creatinine (n = 3231) observations in 201 ELBW neonates were collected. A statistically significant rise of Pottel scores was observed with ibuprofen starting from postnatal day 4. In addition, a cumulative effect of treatment with mean Pottel scores on day 0 of 1.020 and on day 3 during treatment of 1.106 (95% CI 1.068-1.145, p < 0.001) was observed, corrected for effect of antibiotics. Antibiotic administrations showed a small but statistically significant difference up to postnatal day 5.

conclusionsAs rescaled Scr biomarker, the Pottel method showed a clear association with ibuprofen-exposed ELBW neonates, suggesting its applicability as a pragmatic bedside alternative tool to assess nephrotoxicity.

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Acute Kidney InjuryAmikacinCreatinineIbuprofenInfant, Extremely Low Birth WeightPharmacovigilanceVancomycinAnti-Bacterial AgentsFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornMaleAmikacinAnti-Bacterial AgentsCreatinineIbuprofenVancomycinAcute kidney injury (AKI)BiomarkerExtremely low birth weight (ELBW)IbuprofenPharmacovigilancePottel methodSerum creatinine

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