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P450 3A activity and cyclosporine dosing in kidney and heart transplant recipients
Author(s) -
Turgeon D Kim,
Leichtman Alan B,
Lown Kenneth S,
Normolle Daniel P,
Deeb G Michael,
Merion Robert M,
Watkins Paul B
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1038/clpt.1994.135
Subject(s) - dosing , medicine , kidney transplant , kidney , kidney transplantation , heart transplantation , pharmacology , intensive care medicine , transplantation
Interpatient differences in the kinetics of cyclosporine appear to result in part from interindividual differences in the catalytic activity of an enzyme termed P450 3A. We investigated the relationship between P450 3A activity, as measured by the erythromycin breath test (ERMBT), and the appropriate stable daily dose of cyclosporine as currently determined by physicians at our institution. The ERMBT was administered to kidney and heart allograft recipients who had attended at least two monthly clinic visits without having their daily cyclosporine dose changed. There was a significant positive correlation between the ERMBT result and the daily cyclosporine doses (in milligrams per kilogram) in both the heart ( r = 0.68; p = 0.04; n = 9) and kidney ( r = 0.68; p = 0.03; n = 10) recipients. To confirm our findings, we prospectively administered the ERMBT on multiple occasions to 20 patients who were undergoing kidney transplantation. Although the transplant physicians were blinded to the ERMBT results, the test predicted the stable daily doses of cyclosporine that they ultimately prescribed to the patients ( r = 0.54; p = 0.015). When data from all 39 patients were pooled and subjected to multiple regression analysis, the ERMBT was the only variable examined that significantly correlated with the stable daily cyclosporine dose (r = 0.63; p < 0.001; n = 39). In the 20 patients prospectively studied, the prescribed daily dose of cyclosporine generally decreased during the months after surgery and the percentage changes in cyclosporine daily dose correlated with changes in P450 3A activity during this period ( r = 0.47; p = 0.03). We conclude that interpatient and intrapatient differences in P450 3A activity in part account for the cyclosporine dosing practices of transplant physicians. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (1994) 56, 253–260; doi: 10.1038/clpt.1994.135

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