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Clinical Pharmacokinetics of Tacrolimus in Heart Transplant Recipients

 

作者: Mario Regazzi,   Mauro Rinaldi,   Mariadelfina Molinaro,   Carlo Pellegrini,   Monica Calvi,   Eloisa Arbustini,   Elena Bellotti,   Vanni Bascapè,   Luigi Martinelli,   Mario Viganò,  

 

期刊: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring  (OVID Available online 1999)
卷期: Volume 21, issue 1  

页码: 2-7

 

ISSN:0163-4356

 

年代: 1999

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: Heart transplantation;Pharmacokinetics;Tacrolimus

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

We report pharmacokinetic data on tacrolimus in 14 heart transplant patients (2 women, 12 men). The median age and the median body weight were 55.5 years (range, 23-61 years) and 67.0 kg (55-79 kg), respectively. All patients were maintained on a triple-drug protocol (tacrolimus, azathioprine, and prednisone), with a 7-day antithymocyte globuline induction. The first tacrolimus dose, administered orally 1 to 5 days posttransplant, ranged from 0.03 to 0.4 mg/kg (median = 0.052 mg/kg). The maintenance dose ranged from 0.03 to 0.13 mg/kg/day (administered in two equal doses) to achieve blood levels of 5 of 20 ng/ml, as determined by a microparticle enzyme immunoassay (MEIA). Whole blood samples were drawn just before, at 0.5 hour, and at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 hours after the administration of the first dose; trough levels were measured thereafter. The mean oral clearance (CL/F) and apparent volume of distribution (Vd/F) averaged 0.21 ± 0.08 L/hour/kg and 2.4 ± 0.8 L/kg while the half-life averaged 8.7 ± 3.5 hours. Tacrolimus accumulation index during chronic therapy (Rac= Cminsteady state/Cminfirst dose, normalized to the same dose) averaged 1.3. Eighty-eight percent of the trough blood levels measured in our patients were within 5 and 20 ng/ml. The incidence of rejection in the study population was extremely low: a prevalence of grade 2 rejection or more, of 0.4 ± 0.8 episodes/patient was observed after a follow-up period of 8.8 ± 2.2 months. Only one patient experienced severe renal toxicity, probably because of his preoperative precarious hemodynamic status. Pharmacokinetic data suggest that maintenance tacrolimus daily dose should be equal to 0.1 mg/kg/day to obtain trough blood concentrations of ∼ 10 ng/ml. Inter- and intra-patient variability of tacrolimus blood concentration should be expected and justify careful monitoring.

 



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