Atazanavir and cobicistat
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Allison Tu [2]
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Overview
Atazanavir and cobicistat is a combination of a human immunodeficiency virus protease inhibitor and a CYP3A inhibitor that is FDA approved for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in combination with other antiretroviral agents. Common adverse reactions include abnormal bilirubin levels, jaundice, and scleral icterus.
Adult Indications and Dosage
FDA-Labeled Indications and Dosage (Adult)
EVOTAZ® is indicated in combination with other antiretroviral agents for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection in adults.
Limitations of Use: Use of EVOTAZ in treatment-experienced patients should be guided by the number of baseline primary protease inhibitor resistance substitutions.
Dosing Information
- EVOTAZ is a fixed-dose combination product containing 300 mg of atazanavir and 150 mg of cobicistat.
- In treatment-naive and -experienced adults, the recommended dosage of EVOTAZ is one tablet taken once daily orally with food.
- Administer EVOTAZ in conjunction with other antiretroviral agents.
- When coadministered with H2-receptor antagonists or proton-pump inhibitors, dose separation may be required.
- Dosage in Patients with Renal Impairment
- EVOTAZ is not recommended in HIV-1 treatment-experienced patients with end-stage renal disease managed with hemodialysis.
- EVOTAZ coadministered with tenofovir DF is not recommended in patients with estimated creatinine clearance below 70 mL/min. Coadministration of EVOTAZ and tenofovir DF in combination with concomitant or recent use of a nephrotoxic agent is not recommended.
- Not Recommended in Patients with Any Degree of Hepatic Impairment
- EVOTAZ is not recommended in patients with any degree of hepatic impairment.
Off-Label Use and Dosage (Adult)
Guideline-Supported Use
There is limited information regarding Off-Label Guideline-Supported Use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in adult patients.
Non–Guideline-Supported Use
There is limited information regarding Off-Label Non–Guideline-Supported Use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in adult patients.
Pediatric Indications and Dosage
FDA-Labeled Indications and Dosage (Pediatric)
There is limited information regarding Atazanavir and cobicistat FDA-Labeled Indications and Dosage (Pediatric) in the drug label.
Off-Label Use and Dosage (Pediatric)
Guideline-Supported Use
There is limited information regarding Off-Label Guideline-Supported Use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in pediatric patients.
Non–Guideline-Supported Use
There is limited information regarding Off-Label Non–Guideline-Supported Use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in pediatric patients.
Contraindications
EVOTAZ is contraindicated:
- In patients with previously demonstrated clinically significant hypersensitivity (e.g., Stevens-Johnson syndrome, erythema multiforme, or toxic skin eruptions) to any of the components of this product.
- When coadministered with drugs that are highly dependent on CYP3A or UGT1A1 for clearance, and for which elevated plasma concentrations of the interacting drugs are associated with serious and/or life-threatening events (see Table 1).
- When coadministered with drugs that strongly induce CYP3A and may lead to lower exposure and loss of efficacy of EVOTAZ (see Table 1).
Table 1 displays drugs that are contraindicated with EVOTAZ.
Warnings
- Cardiac Conduction Abnormalities
- Atazanavir prolongs the PR interval of the electrocardiogram in some patients.
- In healthy volunteers and in patients, abnormalities in atrioventricular (AV) conduction were asymptomatic and generally limited to first-degree AV block.
- There have been reports of second-degree AV block and other conduction abnormalities.
- In clinical trials of atazanavir that included electrocardiograms, asymptomatic first-degree AV block was observed in 6% of atazanavir-treated patients (n=920) and 5% of patients (n=118) treated with atazanavir coadministered with ritonavir.
- Because of limited clinical experience in patients with preexisting conduction system disease (e.g., marked first-degree AV block or second- or third-degree AV block), consider ECG monitoring in these patients.
- Severe Skin Reactions
- Cases of Stevens-Johnson syndrome, erythema multiforme, and toxic skin eruptions, including drug rash, eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome, have been reported in patients receiving atazanavir. EVOTAZ should be discontinued if severe rash develops.
- Mild-to-moderate maculopapular skin eruptions have also been reported in atazanavir clinical trials. These reactions had a median time to onset of 7.3 weeks and median duration of 1.4 weeks and generally did not result in treatment discontinuation.
- Effects on Serum Creatinine
- Cobicistat decreases estimated creatinine clearance due to inhibition of tubular secretion of creatinine without affecting actual renal glomerular function. This effect should be considered when interpreting changes in estimated creatinine clearance in patients initiating EVOTAZ, particularly in patients with medical conditions or receiving drugs needing monitoring with estimated creatinine clearance.
- Prior to initiating therapy with EVOTAZ, assess estimated creatinine clearance.
- Dosage recommendations are not available for drugs that require dosage adjustments in cobicistat-treated patients with renal impairment. Consider alternative medications that do not require dosage adjustments in patients with renal impairment.
- Although cobicistat may cause modest increases in serum creatinine and modest declines in estimated creatinine clearance without affecting renal glomerular function, patients who experience a confirmed increase in serum creatinine of greater than 0.4 mg/dL from baseline should be closely monitored for renal safety.
- New Onset or Worsening Renal Impairment When Used with Tenofovir DF
- Renal impairment, including cases of acute renal failure and Fanconi syndrome, has been reported when cobicistat was used in an antiretroviral regimen that contained tenofovir DF. Therefore, coadministration of EVOTAZ and tenofovir DF is not recommended in patients who have an estimated creatinine clearance below 70 mL/min.
- When EVOTAZ is used with tenofovir DF, document urine glucose and urine protein at baseline and perform routine monitoring of estimated creatinine clearance, urine glucose, and urine protein during treatment.
- Measure serum phosphorus in patients at risk for renal impairment.
- Coadministration of EVOTAZ and tenofovir DF in combination with concomitant or recent use of a nephrotoxic agent is not recommended.
- In a clinical trial over 144 weeks (N=692), 10 (2.9%) subjects treated with atazanavir coadministered with cobicistat and tenofovir DF and 11 (3.2%) subjects treated with atazanavir coadministered with ritonavir and tenofovir DF discontinued study drug due to a renal adverse event.
- Seven of the 10 subjects (2.0% overall) in the cobicistat group had laboratory findings consistent with proximal renal tubulopathy leading to study drug discontinuation, compared to 7 of 11 subjects (2.0% overall) in the ritonavir group. One subject in the cobicistat group had renal impairment at baseline (e.g., estimated creatinine clearance less than 70 mL/min).
- The laboratory findings in these 7 subjects with evidence of proximal tubulopathy improved but did not completely resolve in all subjects upon discontinuation of cobicistat coadministered with atazanavir and tenofovir DF. Renal replacement therapy was not required in any subject.
- Nephrolithiasis and Cholelithiasis
- Cases of nephrolithiasis and/or cholelithiasis have been reported during postmarketing surveillance in HIV-infected patients receiving atazanavir therapy.
- Some patients required hospitalization for additional management and some had complications. Because these events were reported voluntarily during clinical practice, estimates of frequency cannot be made.
- If signs or symptoms of nephrolithiasis and/or cholelithiasis occur, temporary interruption or discontinuation of therapy may be considered.
- Hepatotoxicity
- Patients with underlying hepatitis B or C viral infections or marked elevations in transaminases may be at increased risk for developing further transaminase elevations or hepatic decompensation.
- In these patients, hepatic laboratory testing should be conducted prior to initiating therapy with EVOTAZ and during treatment.
- Risk of Serious Adverse Reactions or Loss of Virologic Response Due to Drug Interactions
- Initiation of EVOTAZ, a CYP3A inhibitor, in patients receiving medications metabolized by CYP3A or initiation of medications metabolized by CYP3A in patients already receiving EVOTAZ, may increase plasma concentrations of medications metabolized by CYP3A.
- Initiation of medications that inhibit or induce CYP3A may increase or decrease concentrations of EVOTAZ, respectively.
- Increased concentrations of EVOTAZ may lead to:
- Clinically significant adverse reactions, potentially leading to severe, life threatening, or fatal events from higher exposures of concomitant medications.
- Clinically significant adverse reactions from higher exposures of EVOTAZ.
- Decreased concentrations of EVOTAZ may lead to:
- Loss of therapeutic effect of EVOTAZ and possible development of resistance.
- See Table 5 for steps to prevent or manage these possible and known significant drug interactions, including dosing recommendations.
- Consider the potential for drug interactions prior to and during EVOTAZ therapy; review concomitant medications during EVOTAZ therapy; and monitor for the adverse reactions associated with the concomitant medications.
- When used with concomitant medications, EVOTAZ may result in different drug interactions than those observed or expected with atazanavir coadministered with ritonavir. Complex or unknown mechanisms of drug interactions preclude extrapolation of drug interactions with atazanavir coadministered with ritonavir to certain EVOTAZ interactions
- Antiretrovirals that are Not Recommended
- EVOTAZ is not recommended in combination with other antiretroviral drugs that require CYP3A inhibition to achieve adequate exposures (e.g., other HIV protease inhibitors or elvitegravir) because dosing recommendations for such combinations have not been established and coadministration may result in decreased plasma concentrations of the antiretroviral agents, leading to loss of therapeutic effect and development of resistance.
- EVOTAZ is not recommended in combination with ritonavir or products containing ritonavir due to similar effects of cobicistat and ritonavir on CYP3A.
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Most patients taking atazanavir experience asymptomatic elevations in indirect (unconjugated) bilirubin related to inhibition of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT). This hyperbilirubinemia is reversible upon discontinuation of atazanavir.
- Hepatic transaminase elevations that occur with hyperbilirubinemia should be evaluated for alternative etiologies.
- No long-term safety data are available for patients experiencing persistent elevations in total bilirubin greater than 5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN). Alternative antiretroviral therapy to EVOTAZ may be considered if jaundice or scleral icterus associated with bilirubin elevations presents cosmetic concerns for patients.
- Immune Reconstitution Syndrome
- Immune reconstitution syndrome has been reported in patients treated with combination antiretroviral therapy, including atazanavir, a component of EVOTAZ.
- During the initial phase of combination antiretroviral treatment, patients whose immune system responds may develop an inflammatory response to indolent or residual opportunistic infections (such as Mycobacterium avium infection, cytomegalovirus, Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia, or tuberculosis), which may necessitate further evaluation and treatment.
- Autoimmune disorders (such as Graves’ disease, polymyositis, and Guillain-Barré syndrome) have also been reported to occur in the setting of immune reconstitution; however, the time to onset is more variable, and can occur many months after initiation of treatment.
- Diabetes Mellitus/Hyperglycemia
- New-onset diabetes mellitus, exacerbation of preexisting diabetes mellitus, and hyperglycemia have been reported during postmarketing surveillance in HIV-infected patients receiving protease inhibitor therapy.
- Some patients required either initiation or dose adjustments of insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents for treatment of these events. In some cases, diabetic ketoacidosis has occurred. In those patients who discontinued protease inhibitor therapy, hyperglycemia persisted in some cases.
- Because these events have been reported voluntarily during clinical practice, estimates of frequency cannot be made and a causal relationship between protease inhibitor therapy and these events has not been established.
- Fat Redistribution
- Redistribution/accumulation of body fat including central obesity, dorsocervical fat enlargement (buffalo hump), peripheral wasting, facial wasting, breast enlargement, and “cushingoid appearance” have been observed in patients receiving antiretroviral therapy.
- The mechanism and long-term consequences of these events are currently unknown. A causal relationship has not been established.
- Hemophilia
- There have been reports of increased bleeding, including spontaneous skin hematomas and hemarthrosis, in patients with hemophilia type A and B treated with protease inhibitors.
- In some patients additional factor VIII was given. In more than half of the reported cases, treatment with protease inhibitors was continued or reintroduced.
- A causal relationship between protease inhibitor therapy and these events has not been established.
Adverse Reactions
Clinical Trials Experience
There is limited information regarding Atazanavir and cobicistat Clinical Trials Experience in the drug label.
Postmarketing Experience
There is limited information regarding Atazanavir and cobicistat Postmarketing Experience in the drug label.
Drug Interactions
There is limited information regarding Atazanavir and cobicistat Drug Interactions in the drug label.
Use in Specific Populations
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Category (FDA):
There is no FDA guidance on usage of Atazanavir and cobicistat in women who are pregnant.
Pregnancy Category (AUS):
There is no Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC) guidance on usage of Atazanavir and cobicistat in women who are pregnant.
Labor and Delivery
There is no FDA guidance on use of Atazanavir and cobicistat during labor and delivery.
Nursing Mothers
There is no FDA guidance on the use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in women who are nursing.
Pediatric Use
There is no FDA guidance on the use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in pediatric settings.
Geriatic Use
There is no FDA guidance on the use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in geriatric settings.
Gender
There is no FDA guidance on the use of Atazanavir and cobicistat with respect to specific gender populations.
Race
There is no FDA guidance on the use of Atazanavir and cobicistat with respect to specific racial populations.
Renal Impairment
There is no FDA guidance on the use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in patients with renal impairment.
Hepatic Impairment
There is no FDA guidance on the use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in patients with hepatic impairment.
Females of Reproductive Potential and Males
There is no FDA guidance on the use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in women of reproductive potentials and males.
Immunocompromised Patients
There is no FDA guidance one the use of Atazanavir and cobicistat in patients who are immunocompromised.
Administration and Monitoring
Administration
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Monitoring
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IV Compatibility
There is limited information regarding the compatibility of Atazanavir and cobicistat and IV administrations.
Overdosage
There is limited information regarding Atazanavir and cobicistat overdosage. If you suspect drug poisoning or overdose, please contact the National Poison Help hotline (1-800-222-1222) immediately.
Pharmacology
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Mechanism of Action
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Structure
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Pharmacodynamics
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Pharmacokinetics
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Nonclinical Toxicology
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Clinical Studies
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How Supplied
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Storage
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Patient Counseling Information
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Precautions with Alcohol
Alcohol-Atazanavir and cobicistat interaction has not been established. Talk to your doctor about the effects of taking alcohol with this medication.
Brand Names
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Look-Alike Drug Names
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References
The contents of this FDA label are provided by the National Library of Medicine.