[Efficacy of Ipragliflozin in Patients with Steroid-Induced Hyperglycemia during Cancer Chemotherapy]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2016 May;43(5):645-7.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Steroid is a key drug in cancer chemotherapy-induced emesis. However, it may sometimes cause inadequately controlled hyperglycemia. Ipragliflozin is a novel selective sodium-dependent glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor of urinary glucose excretion. In this case, we controlled steroid-induced hyperglycemia by administering ipragliflozin. The case was a 47-year-old man who was diagnosed with Stage IV esophageal cancer (T3N2M1). He had type 2 diabetes. He was treated with cisplatin (70 mg/m2; day 1) and 5-FU (700 mg/m2; days 1-4) as radiochemotherapy. Intravenous infusion of dexamethasone (9.9 mg) was administered on day 1, followed by additional doses (6.6 mg) for 3 days, as one of the emetic therapies. He received intensive insulin therapy during the first course of chemotherapy, but had Grade 3 hyperglycemia regardless. For the next treatment course, we additionally administered ipragliflozin along with dexamethasone. As a result, the hyperglycemia subsided to Grade 2. These findings suggest that ipragliflozin suppresses steroid-induced hyperglycemia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Antiemetics / administration & dosage*
  • Blood Glucose / analysis
  • Chemoradiotherapy
  • Dexamethasone / adverse effects*
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Glucosides / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Hyperglycemia / chemically induced
  • Hyperglycemia / drug therapy*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Thiophenes / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Antiemetics
  • Blood Glucose
  • Glucosides
  • Thiophenes
  • ipragliflozin
  • Dexamethasone