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Risk of audiologic side effects with teprotumumab treatment for thyroid eye disease: propensity matched analysis
Jonathan C Markle1, Anil Johanis2, Jacqueline K Shaia1,3
1Center for Ophthalmic Bioinformatics, Cleveland Clinic, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Background/Objectives:
Patients with thyroid eye disease (TED) taking teprotumumab have reported audiologic symptoms as a side effect; however, limited real world data and large sample sizes have been utilized to evaluate this relationship.
Methods:
A retrospective cohort study was created in TriNetX to identify patients with TED utilizing ICD-10, CPT, and Healthcare Common Procedure coding systems. TED patients with and without teprotumumab treatment were analysed with greedy one-to-one propensity matching. Appearance of one or more new ICD-10 codes corresponding to audiologic outcomes of interest (tinnitus, sensorineural hearing loss, hypoacusis, hyperacusis, autophony, Eustachian tube dysfunction) served as the outcome of interest. Patients with a history of hearing impairment were also evaluated for worsening hearing loss after initiation of teprotumumab.
Results:
Within the entire TriNetX cohort, 88 out of 441 patients with a diagnosis code for TED treated with teprotumumab had new appearance of an audiologic outcome within TriNetX. After matching, the relative risk for TED patients who were exposed to teprotumumab for new audiologic symptoms was increased with a risk ratio (RR) of 2.85 [95% CI 1.94, 4.20] compared to TED patients not exposed to teprotumumab. Of 51 patients with a history of hearing impairment and TED, 14 had record of new audiologic testing after teprotumumab administration (RR = 1.90 [0.96, 3.78]) compared to unexposed patients.
Conclusions:
This study affirms previous research stating that TED patients receiving teprotumumab are at an increased risk of new audiologic side effects when compared to TED patients not using teprotumumab.
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