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Assessment of mitochondrial toxicity in newborns and infants with congenital cytomegalovirus infection treated with valganciclovir

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Background: Ganciclovir/valganciclovir is currently indicated during the first 6 months of life in symptomatic children with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. However, this treatment may have the potential to induce mitochondrial toxicity due to off-target inhibition of DNA-polymerases. Similar anti-HIV drugs have been associated with mitochondrial toxicity but this has never been explored in CMV. Objective: To determine the potential mitochondrial toxicity profile at the genetic, functional and biogenesis level in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from a cohort of newborns and infants with symptomatic congenital CMV infection (treated with valganciclovir, untreated and uninfected controls). Design: Longitudinal, observational and controlled study. Setting and patients: Subjects were recruited at the tertiary referral Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and experiments were conducted at IDIBAPS-Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Spain. CMV-infected newborns underwent comprehensive monthly clinical follow-up. Methods: Mitochondrial parameters, audiometry and neurological assessment were measured at baseline, 3-6 and 12 months after inclusion in the study. The Kruskal-Wallis test for k-independent samples and Friedman tests for repeated measurements were applied.
Results: Complex IV, citrate synthase enzymatic activities and mtDNA remained preserved in congenital CMV-infected infants treated with valganciclovir compared with controls (p>0.05 in all cases). Conclusions: No evidence of mitochondrial toxicity was found in infants treated with valganciclovir for congenital CMV.

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Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2022, vol. 107, num.7, p. 686-691

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cc-by-nc (c)  Ortiz-Gracia, A. et al., 2022

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Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina)

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Assessment of mitochondrial toxicity in newborns and infants with congenital cytomegalovirus infection treated with valganciclovir