• Manabu Ono, Seiichi Kobayashi, Hanagama Masakazu, Masatsugu Ishida, Hikari Sato, Koji Okutomo, Yusuke Shirai, Kodai Takahashi, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Naoya Fujino, Shinsuke Yamanda, and Masaru Yanai.
• Department of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Ishinomaki Hospital, Miyagi, Japan.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Jul 12; 103 (28): e38920e38920.

UnlabelledNintedanib, a multi-intracellular tyrosine kinase inhibitor, reduces progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and has been approved to use in other progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILD) recently. However, the factors that affect the discontinuation of treatment due to adverse events is uncertain. The dorsal muscle group area at the T12 vertebral level (T12DMA) assessed on computed tomography (CT) images has been reported to be associated with mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other diseases. The relationship between T12DMA and the discontinuation of nintedanib remains unclear.Methods39 patients with IPF or other progressive fibrosing ILDs who started nintedanib at a regular dose (300 mg/day) were enrolled. We compared the characteristics between patients who stopped nintedanib at a regular dose before 6 months and/or continue to take nintedanib at a low dose (150 mg/day) and patients who were still taking nintedanib at a regular dose over 6 months. This study retrospectively investigated clinical parameters including T12DMA index (T12DMA/height2) to evaluate whether these parameters might serve as risk factor for the tolerability of nintedanib in patients with IPF and other progressive fibrosing ILDs.ResultsDiscontinuation or dose reductions of nintedanib due to adverse events were observed in 14 (35.8%) patients. A multiple logistic regression model showed T12DMA index to be the only significant risk factor for predicting for the early termination of nintedanib (odd rate, 0.549; 95% confidence interval, 0.327-0.922; P = .023).ConclusionsThis study revealed that T12DMA index was a risk factor for the early termination of nintedanib. The initial dose of nintedanib adjusted to the differences in skeletal muscle mass and careful management of adverse events may contribute to the longer nintedanib treatment, which would lead to a better clinical outcome.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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