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CLEVIPREX (NDA-022156)

(CLEVIDIPINE)

Safety-related Labeling Changes Approved by FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)

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04/16/2021 (SUPPL-7)

Approved Drug Label (PDF)

8 Use in Specific Populations

8.1 Pregnancy

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Risk Summary

The available data based on post-marketing reports with Cleviprex use in pregnant women are not sufficient to inform a drug-associated risk for major birth defects, miscarriage, or adverse maternal or fetal outcomes. There are risks to the mother and fetus associated with poorly controlled hypertension in pregnancy (see Clinical Considerations). In animal studies, clevidipine was associated with increased incidences of intrauterine deaths, slightly reduced fetal weight, retarded skeletal development, abortion, and embryo lethality at doses higher than the expected human dose. No evidence of embryo-fetal malformation was found with continuous IV infusion of clevidipine administered to pregnant rats and rabbits during the period of organogenesis at multiples of 2.8 and 7.6 times the expected human dose of 16 mg/hour respectively (see Data).

The estimated background risk of major birth defects and miscarriage for the indicated population is unknown. All pregnancies have a background risk of major birth defects, loss, and other adverse outcomes. In the U.S. general population, the estimated major birth defects and miscarriage in clinically recognized pregnancies is 2 to 4% and 15 to 20%, respectively.

Clinical Considerations

Disease-associated maternal and/or embryo/fetal risk

Hypertension in pregnancy increases the maternal risk for pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, premature delivery, and delivery complications (e.g., need for cesarean section and postpartum hemorrhage). Hypertension increases the fetal risk for intrauterine growth restriction and intrauterine death. Pregnant women with hypertension should be carefully monitored and managed accordingly.

Data

Animal Data

In pregnant rats, clevidipine caused a dose-related increase in mortality, length of gestation, and prolonged parturition at dose levels of 13, 35, and 55 mg/kg/day.

Clevidipine has been shown to cross the placenta in rats. No evidence of embryo-fetal malformation was found with continuous IV infusion of clevidipine during the period of organogenesis at doses up to 13 mg/kg/day in pregnant rats and 35 mg/kg/day in pregnant rabbits (2.8 to 7.6 times the expected human dose of 16 mg/hour). Embryo-fetal toxicity was seen with continuous IV infusion of clevidipine during the period of major embryonic organogenesis at 35 mg/kg/day in pregnant rats and at 55 mg/kg/day in pregnant rabbits (7.6 to 12 times the expected maximum human dose of 16 mg/hour).

There was no evidence that clevidipine was teratogenic at the highest dose levels studied in pregnant rats and rabbits.

8.2 Lactation

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Risk Summary

There are no data on the presence of clevidipine in human milk, the effects on the breastfed infant, or the effects on milk production.