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Dermody Grand Rounds May 2023 Circle City Submission - Final
Dermody Grand Rounds May 2023 Circle City Submission - Final
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: National Diabetes Statistics Report.
Epidemiology in Type 2 Diabetes:
Chronic Kidney Disease Heart Failure
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-ominous-octet-pathophysiologic-abnormalities-in-type-2-diabetes-mellitus-7_fig2_46393919
Normal
Type 2
eGFR > 25 Serum Albuminuria
Diabetes
mL/min/1.73m2 Potassium (ACR > 30 mg/g)
Mellitus
Level
Lexi-drugs/Finerenone
Finerenone: Mechanism of Action
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043661821004436
Lexi-drugs/Finerenone
Finerenone: Maintenance Dosing
Current serum Current finerenone dose
potassium (mEq/L) 10 mg once daily 20 mg once daily
Maintenance: < 4.8 Increase to 20 mg Continue 20 mg
based on once daily once daily
serum
potassium > 4.8 to 5.5 Continue 10 mg Continue 20 mg
four weeks once daily once daily
after > 5.5 Interrupt therapy; may Interrupt therapy;
initiation consider restarting restart at 10 mg once
10 mg once daily when daily when serum
serum potassium potassium ≤5 mEq/L
< 5 mEq/L
Lexi-drugs/Finerenone
Knowledge Check
Define the mechanism of finerenone:
A. Inhibition of renin-angiotensin aldosterone system
C. Competes with aldosterone for receptor sites in the distal renal tubules
to promote sodium excretion
Small
HF Definition Subgroup 72% White
Sample Size
Pre-existing
69% Male
HF Regimens
Exclusion of
Rate of
non-albuminuric
Advanced CKD
CKD
Exclusion of CKD
not due to 4.7% Black
T2DM
4%
69.8% Male 68.1% White Black/African
American
Exclusion of
4% Black/African Emergence of
those with non-
American SGLT2i’s
albuminuric CKD
eGFR: 67.8
64.1 Years 8.4% SGLT2i
mL/min/1.73m2
Cardiovascular
Events with COVID-19 SGLT2i’s
Finerenone in
Kidney Disease
and Type 2
Diabetes 70% Male 72% White
FIGARO- FIDELO-
Finerenone reduces
DKD Finerenone reduces DKD the risk of CKD
new-onset HF and
progression and CV
improves HF outcomes
events vs. placebo in
in patients with CKD
patients with CKD and
and T2DM vs. placebo
T2DM
CV Events
FIDELITY
in CKD
ANALYSIS Finerenone reduces Finerenone improves
risk of CV and renal and DM CV outcomes in
outcomes vs. patients with T2DM
placebo in patients and stage 1-2 CKD
with CKD and T2DM vs. placebo
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