Omegaven Side Effects

6 ADVERSE REACTIONS The following clinically significant adverse reactions are described elsewhere in the labeling: • Clinical Decompensation with Rapid Infusion of Intravenous Lipid Emulsion in Neonates and Infants [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.1 )] • Hypersensitivity reactions [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.2 )] • Infections [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.3 )] • Fat overload syndrome [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.4 )] • Refeeding syndrome [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.5 )] • Hypertriglyceridemia [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.6 )] • Aluminum toxicity [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.7 )] Most common adverse drug reactions (>15%) are: vomiting, agitation, bradycardia, apnea and viral infection.

( 6.1 ) To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC at 1-800-551-7176 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.

6.1 Clinical Trials Experience Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice.

The safety database for Omegaven reflects exposure in 189 pediatric patients (19 days to 15 years of age) treated for a median of 14 weeks (3 days to 8 years) in two clinical trials.

Omegaven was administered at a maximum dose of 1 g/kg/day as the lipid component of a PN regimen which also included dextrose, amino acids, vitamins, and trace elements;

158 (84%) of these patients received concurrent lipids from enteral nutrition [see Clinical Studies ( 14 )] .

Adverse reactions that occurred in more than 5% of patients who received Omegaven and with a higher incidence than the comparator group are shown in Table 2 .

Patients had a complicated medical and surgical history prior to receiving Omegaven treatment and the mortality was 13%.

Underlying clinical conditions prior to the initiation of Omegaven therapy included prematurity, low birth weight, necrotizing enterocolitis, short bowel syndrome, ventilator dependence, coagulopathy, intraventricular hemorrhage, and sepsis.

Table 2: Adverse Reactions in Greater Than 5% of Omegaven-Treated Pediatric Patients with PNAC Adverse Reaction Omegaven (N=189) n (%) Vomiting 87 (46) Agitation 67 (35) Bradycardia 66 (35) Apnea 38 (20) Viral Infection 30 (16) Erythema 23 (12) Rash 15 (8) Abscess 14 (7) Neutropenia 13 (7) Hypertonia 11 (6) Incision site erythema 11 (6) Twelve (6%) Omegaven-treated patients were listed for liver transplantation (1 patient was listed 18 days before treatment, and 11 patients after a median of 42 days [range: 2 days to 8 months] of treatment);