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Menin inhibitor

Ziftomenib

Komzifti · ZIFT

Menin inhibitor · approved 2025 · 5 references

A menin inhibitor for NPM1-mutated AML whose chief renal hazard is differentiation syndrome and tumor lysis.

Signature injury
Prerenal / Hemodynamic AKI
Severity
Moderate
Reversibility
Reversible
Onset
Differentiation syndrome typically within the first weeks of therapy as blasts differentiate; QTc prolongation is also seen.

Signature kidney injury & incidence

Prerenal / Hemodynamic AKI.

Renal-specific data are not established. The class-defining serious toxicity is differentiation syndrome — reported in 12/83 (15%) of patients in the KOMET-001 phase 1 trial (with higher severity in KMT2A-rearranged patients, halting that cohort's enrollment) — which can cause capillary leak, fluid overload and AKI. Tumor-lysis risk accompanies rapid blast clearance. No drug-specific renal incidence is published.

Source: Wang et al., Lancet Oncol 2024 (KOMET-001)

Reported injury signatures: Prerenal / Hemodynamic AKI, Electrolyte Disturbance.

Renal toxicity profile

  1. Prerenal / Hemodynamic AKIPrimary
  2. Electrolyte DisturbanceSecondary

Onset timing & rechallenge

Subacute (~1–6 weeks) — Differentiation syndrome typically arises within the first weeks of therapy as blasts differentiate; QTc prolongation is also seen.

Mechanism of kidney injury

Indirect: differentiation syndrome (analogous to that seen with IDH inhibitors and ATRA) produces a systemic inflammatory/cytokine state with capillary leak, fluid retention, weight gain, hypotension and prerenal/ischemic AKI; concurrent tumor lysis adds urate/phosphate intratubular injury. A direct tubular/glomerular lesion has not been described.

Clinical presentation

Dyspnea, pulmonary infiltrates, edema, weight gain, hypotension and rising creatinine during differentiation syndrome; metabolic derangements of tumor lysis (hyperuricemia, hyperphosphatemia, hyperkalemia) if present. Fever and leukocytosis often accompany differentiation syndrome.

Management

Treat differentiation syndrome promptly (corticosteroids, supportive care, consider drug interruption for severe cases); standard tumor-lysis management; supportive care for prerenal/ischemic AKI. Correct electrolytes (also for QT safety). No drug-specific renal antidote is defined.

Risk factors

  • High leukemic burden / rapid response (differentiation syndrome and TLS)
  • KMT2A-rearranged disease (higher differentiation-syndrome severity)
  • Baseline CKD
  • Concurrent nephrotoxins in the AML setting

Prevention

  • Vigilance for and prompt corticosteroid (dexamethasone) treatment of differentiation syndrome; consider hydroxyurea for leukocytosis
  • Tumor-lysis prophylaxis (hydration, allopurinol/rasburicase)

Renal dose adjustment

No dedicated renal dose adjustment is established; ziftomenib is hepatically metabolized. Dose interruption is driven by differentiation syndrome, QTc and cytopenias rather than CrCl. Data in significant renal impairment/dialysis are absent.

Dialyzability & ESKD dosing

Not characterized; a protein-bound, hepatically cleared small molecule unlikely to be appreciably dialyzed. No ESKD dosing guidance.

Differential diagnosis

Distinguish differentiation-syndrome AKI (capillary leak, pulmonary infiltrates, edema, fever) from tumor-lysis AKI (urate/phosphate, early) and neutropenic-sepsis ATN; these often co-occur and the management overlaps (steroids for DS, TLS measures, supportive care).

Monitoring

  • Daily symptom/weight/oxygenation review early on for differentiation syndrome
  • Creatinine, electrolytes, uric acid, phosphate (TLS screen) at initiation and through response
  • ECG/QTc and CBC

Key trials & series

  • KOMET-001 (Wang, Lancet Oncol 2024) — phase 1/2 carrying the differentiation-syndrome safety signal
  • KOMET-007 (Wang, Blood 2026) — combination with venetoclax/azacitidine

Clinical pearls

  • Differentiation syndrome is the signature serious toxicity — fluid overload, hypoxia and AKI; treat early with dexamethasone, do not just blame volume.
  • Like IDH inhibitors, the menin class differentiates blasts — expect both differentiation syndrome AND tumor lysis in the first weeks.
  • Renal data are thin even post-approval; reason from the differentiation-syndrome/TLS analogy.

Anticancer mechanism

Oral, selective inhibitor of the menin-KMT2A (MLL) protein-protein interaction. Disrupting the menin-MLL complex displaces it from target gene promoters (HOXA9/MEIS1), driving terminal differentiation of leukemic blasts. Approved (2025) as monotherapy for relapsed/refractory NPM1-mutated AML; under active development in combination and in KMT2A-rearranged leukemia.

Note

FDA-approved in 2025 for relapsed/refractory NPM1-mutated AML (first menin inhibitor). Renal-specific literature remains essentially absent; the differentiation-syndrome/TLS framing is class-based, drawn from KOMET-001 and analogy to IDH-inhibitor differentiation syndrome. Treat renal claims as low-certainty.

Guidelines & consensus

Each recommendation below is this atlas's faithful summary of the source, not a quotation from it — follow the PubMed link for the wording the society published. Summaries may be superseded; consult the current full text and individualize to the patient.

  • ADQI (2026) — The nephrotoxic effects of anti-cancer therapies: consensus report of the 34th Acute Disease Quality Initiative workgroupProvides expert-based statements (modified Delphi) on preventing and managing cisplatin/platinum-associated AKI, including isotonic IV hydration, attention to volume status and concomitant nephrotoxins, and incorporates evidence that IV magnesium supplementation may reduce cisplatin-associated AKI; emphasizes risk stratification and standardized AKI definitions.Nat Rev Nephrol · PMID 41361704
  • SIRM (2022) — SIRM-SIN-AIOM: appropriateness criteria for evaluation and prevention of renal damage in the patient undergoing contrast medium examinations-consensus statements from Italian College of Radiology (SIRM), Italian College of Nephrology (SIN) and Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM)Recommends eGFR-based renal risk assessment and pre/post-contrast isotonic saline or sodium bicarbonate hydration; advises maintaining a 5-7 day interval between iodinated contrast administration and cisplatin in cancer patients to reduce additive nephrotoxicity.Radiol Med · PMID 35303246
  • KDIGO (2020) — KDIGO Controversies Conference on onco-nephrology: understanding kidney impairment and solid-organ malignancies, and managing kidney cancerIdentifies platinum compounds (especially cisplatin) as leading cytotoxic causes of acute tubular injury, AKI, and electrolyte/magnesium wasting; calls for interdisciplinary onco-nephrology care, accurate GFR estimation, and individualized drug dosing in patients with reduced kidney function.Kidney Int · PMID 33126977
  • KDIGO (2020) — KDIGO Controversies Conference on onco-nephrology: kidney disease in hematological malignancies and the burden of cancer after kidney transplantationAddresses chemotherapy-associated AKI/CKD in hematologic cancer, GFR estimation and chemotherapy dosing in patients with reduced kidney function, and management priorities and research gaps for onco-nephrology care.Kidney Int · PMID 33276867
  • ADDIKD (2025) — Integrating International Consensus Guidelines for Anticancer Drug Dosing in Kidney Dysfunction (ADDIKD) into everyday practiceProvides GRADE-based, drug-specific dose-adjustment recommendations for anticancer agents in kidney dysfunction (illustrated for methotrexate, cisplatin, carboplatin and nivolumab); the recommendations build on Part 1's standardised CKD-EPI eGFR assessment rather than Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance.EClinicalMedicine · PMID 40290844
  • ADDIKD (2025) — Aligning kidney function assessment in patients with cancer to global practices in internal medicineThree consensus recommendations: assess kidney function by GFR (measured GFR or CKD-EPI eGFR), classify it using KDIGO categories, and use this uniform approach to dose anticancer drugs — moving cancer medicine away from Cockcroft-Gault estimated creatinine clearance.EClinicalMedicine · PMID 40290845
  • ADDIKD (2025) — A methodology for determining dosing recommendations for anticancer drugs in patients with reduced kidney functionEstablishes that, where RCT evidence is lacking, anticancer drug dosing recommendations in kidney dysfunction should be derived by critically appraising observational literature via GRADE combined with structured international multidisciplinary consensus voting.EClinicalMedicine · PMID 40290846
  • KDIGO (2013) — Diagnosis, evaluation, and management of acute kidney injury: a KDIGO summary (Part 1)Defines/stages AKI by serum creatinine and urine output; emphasizes avoiding nephrotoxins, maintaining euvolemia/perfusion, dose-adjusting drugs to kidney function, and monitoring high-risk patients — the framework applied to nephrotoxic anti-cancer agents.Crit Care · PMID 23394211
  • KDIGO (2024) — Executive summary of the KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease: known knowns and known unknownsEvaluate and risk-stratify CKD, manage to delay progression and its complications, and practise explicit medication management and drug stewardship — the framework the atlas's G1–G5 eGFR banding and every renal dose-adjustment recommendation sit inside. Because the guideline excludes dialysis and transplant recipients by its own statement of scope, its recommendations do not carry to those settings, where this atlas's dialyzability and post-transplant guidance rests on other sources.Kidney Int · PMID 38519239
  • KDIGO (2021) — Executive summary of the KDIGO 2021 Guideline for the Management of Glomerular DiseasesProvides the staging/treatment framework for drug-associated glomerular lesions (e.g., bisphosphonate- and interferon-related collapsing FSGS, VEGF-inhibitor podocytopathy/proteinuria), including immunosuppression and supportive RAAS-blockade strategies.Kidney Int · PMID 34556300
  • KDIGO (2024) — Executive summary of the KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of ANCA-Associated VasculitisUpdates immunosuppressive induction (rituximab/cyclophosphamide), incorporates avacopan and lower-dose or glucocorticoid-sparing regimens — the management framework for drug- and checkpoint-inhibitor-associated ANCA/pauci-immune glomerulonephritis.Kidney Int · PMID 38388147
  • KDIGO (2024) — Executive summary of the KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Lupus NephritisUpdates first-line lupus nephritis therapy to combination immunosuppression with the addition of belimumab or a calcineurin inhibitor (voclosporin) — informs management of immune-complex/lupus-like glomerulonephritis encountered with immunotherapy.Kidney Int · PMID 38182299
  • KDIGO (2025) — Executive summary of the KDIGO 2025 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy (IgAN) and Immunoglobulin A Vasculitis (IgAV)Encourages liberal kidney biopsy and stricter proteinuria control (<0.5 g/d, ideally <0.3 g/d) with RAAS blockers, SGLT2 inhibitors, and targeted-release budesonide — the framework for IgA-dominant glomerular lesions, including those triggered by immune-modulating cancer therapy.Kidney Int · PMID 40975525

References

5 peer-reviewed references. Citation metadata via PubMed / NLM.

  1. 1.Ziftomenib in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukaemia (KOMET-001): a multicentre, open-label, multi-cohort, phase 1 trial.Wang ES et al. · Lancet Oncol · 2024 · PMID 39362248
  2. 2.Ziftomenib with venetoclax and azacitidine in relapsed/refractory NPM1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia.Wang ES et al. · Blood · 2026 · PMID 42227701
  3. 3.Menin inhibitors in KMT2A-rearranged and NPM1-mutated acute leukemia: A scoping review of safety and efficacy.Dali SA et al. · Crit Rev Oncol Hematol · 2025 · PMID 40441466
  4. 4.Onconephrology.Kala J et al. · Crit Care Clin · 2021 · PMID 33752861
  5. 5.Tumour lysis syndrome.Howard SC et al. · Nat Rev Dis Primers · 2024 · PMID 39174582
Educational monograph from NephTox (nephtox.com). Not medical advice — verify against current guidelines before any clinical decision.