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Early Urinary Potassium Level Predicts High-dose Methotrexate Elimination Delay in Primary Central Nervous System
Vincent Harlay1, Alexandre Bertucci2,3, Céline Boucard2,4
1Service de Neuro-oncologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Timone, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Marseille, France; Vincent.harlay@ap-hm.fr.
Background/Aim:
Treatment of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) includes high dose methotrexate-based polychemotherapy (HD-MTX). This study aimed to identify early predictive factors of methotrexate (MTX) delayed elimination.
Patients And Methods:
We prospectively included all patients with newly-diagnosed PCNSL. Daily serum and urinary creatinine and ionogram were collected. We generated two independent cohorts: a training cohort (TC) and a confirmatory cohort (CC).
Results:
We included for analysis 64 cures of HD-MTX (20 patients) in the TC and 59 cures (22 patients) in the CC. Median elimination time of MTX was 95 h and 96 h in the TC and CC, respectively. In multivariate analysis, older age (p=0.004), low Karnofsky Performance Status (p=0.036) and high urinary K+ (p=0.001) were associated with delayed MTX elimination. An optimal cutoff for urinary K+ was defined. In the CC, we confirmed that high urinary K+ (p=0.004) remained associated with delayed MTX elimination.
Conclusion:
High urinary K+ may be predictive of delayed MTX elimination in primary central nervous system lymphoma. Its relevance as a decision-making factor needs to be validated in additional prospective studies.
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