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Arnold DT, Read L, Waddington O, Hamilton FW, Patole S, Hughes J, Milne A, Noel A, Bayliss M, Maskell NA, MacGowan A. Antibiotic pharmacokinetics in infected pleural effusions. Thorax 2024; 79:883-885. [PMID: 38964858 PMCID: PMC11347206 DOI: 10.1136/thorax-2023-220402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/06/2024]
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Pleural infection is usually treated with empirical broad-spectrum antibiotics, but limited data exist on their penetrance into the infected pleural space. We performed a pharmacokinetic study analysing the concentration of five intravenous antibiotics across 146 separate time points in 35 patients (amoxicillin, metronidazole, piperacillin-tazobactam, clindamycin and cotrimoxazole). All antibiotics tested, apart from co-trimoxazole, reach pleural fluid levels equivalent to levels within the blood and well above the relevant minimum inhibitory concentrations. The results demonstrate that concerns about the penetration of commonly used antibiotics, apart from co-trimoxazole, into the infected pleural space are unfounded.
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- David T Arnold
- Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Antimicrobial Reference Laboratory, North Bristol NHS Trust, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, UK
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- Antimicrobial Reference Laboratory, North Bristol NHS Trust, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Infection Science, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Antimicrobial Reference Laboratory, North Bristol NHS Trust, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, UK
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- Antimicrobial Reference Laboratory, North Bristol NHS Trust, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, UK
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- Antimicrobial Reference Laboratory, North Bristol NHS Trust, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, UK
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Cojutti PG, Pai MP, Tonetti T, Siniscalchi A, Viale P, Pea F. Balancing the scales: achieving the optimal beta-lactam to beta-lactamase inhibitor ratio with continuous infusion piperacillin/tazobactam against extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacterales. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2024; 68:e0140423. [PMID: 38411995 PMCID: PMC10994818 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01404-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
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Piperacillin/tazobactam (TZP) is administered intravenously in a fixed ratio (8:1) with the potential for inadequate tazobactam exposure to ensure piperacillin activity against Enterobacterales. Adult patients receiving continuous infusion (CI) of TZP and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of both agents were evaluated. Demographic variables and other pertinent laboratory data were collected retrospectively. A population pharmacokinetic approach was used to select the best kidney function model predictive of TZP clearance (CL). The probability of target attainment (PTA), cumulative fraction of response (CFR) and the ratio between piperacillin and tazobactam were computed to identify optimal dosage regimens by continuous infusion across kidney function. This study included 257 critically ill patients (79.3% male) with intra-abdominal, bloodstream, and hospital-acquired pneumonia infections in 89.5% as the primary indication. The median (min-max range) age, body weight, and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were 66 (23-93) years, 75 (39-310) kg, and 79.2 (6.4-234) mL/min, respectively. Doses of up to 22.5 g/day were used to optimize TZP based on TDM. The 2021 chronic kidney disease epidemiology equation in mL/min best modeled TZP CL. The ratio of piperacillin:tazobactam increased from 6:1 to 10:1 between an eGFR of <20 mL/min and >120 mL/min. At conventional doses, the PTA is below 90% when eGFR is ≥100 mL/min. Daily doses of 18 g/day and 22.5 g/day by CI are expected to achieve a >80% CFR when eGFR is 100-120 mL/min and >120-160 mL/min, respectively. Inadequate piperacillin and tazobactam exposure is likely in patients with eGFR ≥ 100 mL/min. Dose regimen adjustments informed by TDM should be evaluated in this specific population.
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- Pier Giorgio Cojutti
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Clinical Pharmacology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero—Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero—Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Division of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero—Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Infectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero—Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Clinical Pharmacology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero—Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Rodvold KA, Shorr AF. Lessons Are Still Being Learned about Intrapulmonary Antibiotic Concentrations. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2024; 209:777-778. [PMID: 38300143 PMCID: PMC10995571 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202312-2338ed] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
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- Keith A Rodvold
- Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, Illinois
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- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Medstar Washington Hospital Center Washington, District of Columbia
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Hansel J, Mannan F, Robey R, Kumarendran M, Bladon S, Mathioudakis AG, Ogungbenro K, Dark P, Felton TW. Covariates in population pharmacokinetic studies of critically ill adults receiving β-lactam antimicrobials: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. JAC Antimicrob Resist 2024; 6:dlae030. [PMID: 38410250 PMCID: PMC10895699 DOI: 10.1093/jacamr/dlae030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
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Introduction Population pharmacokinetic studies of β-lactam antimicrobials in critically ill patients derive models that inform their dosing. In non-linear mixed-effects modelling, covariates are often used to improve model fit and explain variability. We aimed to investigate which covariates are most commonly assessed and which are found to be significant, along with global patterns of publication. Methods We conducted a systematic review, searching MEDLINE, Embase, CENTRAL and Web of Science on 01 March 2023, including studies of critically ill adults receiving β-lactam antimicrobials who underwent blood sampling for population pharmacokinetic studies. We extracted and categorized all reported covariates and assessed reporting quality using the ClinPK checklist. Results Our search identified 151 studies with 6018 participants. Most studies reported observational cohorts (120 studies, 80%), with the majority conducted in high-income settings (136 studies, 90%). Of the 1083 identified covariate instances, 237 were unique; the most common categories were patient characteristics (n = 404), biomarkers (n = 206) and physiological parameters (n = 163). Only seven distinct commonly reported covariates (CLCR, weight, glomerular filtration rate, diuresis, need for renal replacement, serum albumin and C-reactive protein) were significant more than 20% of the time. Conclusions Covariates are most commonly chosen based on biological plausibility, with patient characteristics and biomarkers the most frequently investigated. We developed an openly accessible database of reported covariates to aid investigators with covariate selection when designing population pharmacokinetic studies. Novel covariates, such as sepsis subphenotypes, have not been explored yet, leaving a research gap for future work.
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- Jan Hansel
- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Acute Intensive Care Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 9LT, UK
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- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Acute Intensive Care Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 9LT, UK
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- Division of Informatics, Imaging & Data Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- North West Lung Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 9LT, UK
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- Division of Pharmacy & Optometry, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Critical Care Unit, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Care Organisation, Greater Manchester M6 8HD, UK
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- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Acute Intensive Care Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 9LT, UK
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Fratoni AJ, Roberts AL, Nicolau DP, Kuti JL. Effects of clinically achievable pulmonary antibiotic concentrations on the recovery of bacteria: in vitro comparison of the BioFire FILMARRAY Pneumonia Panel versus conventional culture methods in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. J Clin Microbiol 2024; 62:e0113323. [PMID: 38112451 PMCID: PMC10793292 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01133-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
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Empiric antibiotics may affect bacterial pathogen recovery using conventional culture methods (CCMs), while PCR-based diagnostics are likely less affected. Herein, we conducted an in vitro study of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL) inoculated with bacteria and clinically relevant antibiotic concentrations to compare the recovery between the BioFire FILMARRAY Pneumonia Panel (Pn Panel) and CCMs. Remnant clinical BAL specimens were inoculated to ~105 cfu/mL using 12 clinical isolates. Isolates consisted of one wild-type (WT) and one or more resistant strains of: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Staphylococcus aureus. Piperacillin-tazobactam, cefepime, meropenem, levofloxacin, or vancomycin was added to achieve pulmonary epithelial lining fluid peak and trough concentrations. Post-exposure cfu/mL was quantified by CCMs and simultaneously tested by the PN Panel for identification and semi-quantitative genetic copies/mL. CCM results were categorized as significant growth (SG) (≥1 × 104), no significant growth (NSG) (≥1 × 103, <1 × 104), or no growth (NG) (<1 × 103). The PN Panel accurately identified all isolates, resistance genes, and reported ≥106 genetic copies/mL regardless of antibiotic exposure. The CCM also identified all S. aureus strains exposed to vancomycin. For WT Gram-negative isolates exposed to antibiotics, SG, NSG, and NG were observed in 7/52 (13%), 18/52 (35%), and 27/52 (52%) of CCM experiments, respectively. For resistant Gram-negatives isolates, SG, NSG, and NG were observed in 62/88 (70%), 17/88 (19%), and 9/88 (10%), respectively. These in vitro data demonstrate that the PN Panel is able to identify Gram-negative pathogens in the presence of clinically significant antibiotic concentrations when CCM may not.
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- Andrew J. Fratoni
- Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hartford HealthCare, Newington, Connecticut, USA
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- Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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- Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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Gatti M, Rinaldi M, Tonetti T, Siniscalchi A, Viale P, Pea F. Could an Optimized Joint Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Target Attainment of Continuous Infusion Piperacillin-Tazobactam Be a Valuable Innovative Approach for Maximizing the Effectiveness of Monotherapy Even in the Treatment of Critically Ill Patients with Documented Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacterales Bloodstream Infections and/or Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia? Antibiotics (Basel) 2023; 12:1736. [PMID: 38136770 PMCID: PMC10740629 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12121736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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(1) Background: Piperacillin-tazobactam represents the first-line option for treating infections caused by full- or multi-susceptible Enterobacterales and/or Pseudomonas aeruginosa in critically ill patients. Several studies reported that attaining aggressive pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) targets with beta-lactams is associated with an improved microbiological/clinical outcome. We aimed to assess the relationship between the joint PK/PD target attainment of continuous infusion (CI) piperacillin-tazobactam and the microbiological/clinical outcome of documented Gram-negative bloodstream infections (BSI) and/or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) of critically ill patients treated with CI piperacillin-tazobactam monotherapy. (2) Methods: Critically ill patients admitted to the general and post-transplant intensive care unit in the period July 2021-September 2023 treated with CI piperacillin-tazobactam monotherapy optimized by means of a real-time therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)-guided expert clinical pharmacological advice (ECPA) program for documented Gram-negative BSIs and/or VAP were retrospectively retrieved. Steady-state plasma concentrations (Css) of piperacillin and of tazobactam were measured, and the free fractions (f) were calculated according to respective plasma protein binding. The joint PK/PD target was defined as optimal whenever both the piperacillin fCss/MIC ratio was >4 and the tazobactam fCss/target concentration (CT) ratio was > 1 (quasi-optimal or suboptimal whenever only one or none of the two weas achieved, respectively). Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed for testing variables potentially associated with microbiological outcome. (3) Results: Overall, 43 critically ill patients (median age 69 years; male 58.1%; median SOFA score at baseline 8) treated with CI piperacillin-tazobactam monotherapy were included. Optimal joint PK/PD target was attained in 36 cases (83.7%). At multivariate analysis, optimal attaining of joint PK/PD target was protective against microbiological failure (OR 0.03; 95%CI 0.003-0.27; p = 0.002), whereas quasi-optimal/suboptimal emerged as the only independent predictor of microbiological failure (OR 37.2; 95%CI 3.66-377.86; p = 0.002). (4) Conclusion: Optimized joint PK/PD target attainment of CI piperacillin-tazobactam could represent a valuable strategy for maximizing microbiological outcome in critically ill patients with documented Gram-negative BSI and/or VAP, even when sustained by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacterales. In this scenario, implementing a real-time TDM-guided ECPA program may be helpful in preventing failure in attaining optimal joint PK/PD targets among critically ill patients. Larger prospective studies are warranted to confirm our findings.
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- Milo Gatti
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy; (M.G.); (M.R.); (T.T.); (P.V.)
- Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Department for Integrated Infectious Risk Management, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy; (M.G.); (M.R.); (T.T.); (P.V.)
- Infectious Disease Unit, Department for integrated Infectious Risk Management, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy; (M.G.); (M.R.); (T.T.); (P.V.)
- Division of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
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- Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy;
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy; (M.G.); (M.R.); (T.T.); (P.V.)
- Infectious Disease Unit, Department for integrated Infectious Risk Management, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy; (M.G.); (M.R.); (T.T.); (P.V.)
- Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Department for Integrated Infectious Risk Management, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
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Hyun DG, Seo J, Lee SY, Ahn JH, Hong SB, Lim CM, Koh Y, Huh JW. Extended Versus Intermittent Meropenem Infusion in the Treatment of Nosocomial Pneumonia: A Retrospective Single-Center Study. Antibiotics (Basel) 2023; 12:1542. [PMID: 37887243 PMCID: PMC10604670 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12101542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 09/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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The efficacy of extended meropenem infusions in patients with nosocomial pneumonia is not well defined. Therefore, we compared the clinical outcomes of extended versus intermittent meropenem infusions in the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia. We performed a retrospective analysis of extended versus intermittent meropenem infusions in adult patients who had been treated for nosocomial pneumonia at a medical ICU between 1 May 2018 and 30 April 2020. The primary outcome was mortality at 14 days. Overall, 64 patients who underwent an extended infusion and 97 with an intermittent infusion were included in this study. At 14 days, 10 (15.6%) patients in the extended group and 22 (22.7%) in the intermittent group had died (adjusted hazard ratio (HR), 0.55; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.23-1.31; p = 0.174). In the subgroup analysis, significant differences in mortality at day 14 were observed in patients following empirical treatment with meropenem (adjusted HR, 0.17; 95% CI: 0.03-0.96; p = 0.045) and in Gram-negative pathogens identified by blood or sputum cultures (adjusted HR, 0.01; 95% CI: 0.01-0.83; p = 0.033). Extended infusion of meropenem compared with intermittent infusion as a treatment option for nosocomial pneumonia may have a potential advantage in specific populations.
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- Dong-gon Hyun
- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Centre, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea; (D.-g.H.)
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- Department of Pharmacy, Asan Medical Centre, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Centre, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea; (D.-g.H.)
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Centre, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea; (D.-g.H.)
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Centre, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea; (D.-g.H.)
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Centre, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea; (D.-g.H.)
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Centre, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea; (D.-g.H.)
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Centre, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea; (D.-g.H.)
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Tang Girdwood S, Pavia K, Paice K, Hambrick HR, Kaplan J, Vinks AA. β-lactam precision dosing in critically ill children: Current state and knowledge gaps. Front Pharmacol 2022; 13:1044683. [PMID: 36532752 PMCID: PMC9752101 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1044683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
There has been emerging interest in implementing therapeutic drug monitoring and model-informed precision dosing of β-lactam antibiotics in critically ill patients, including children. Despite a position paper endorsed by multiple international societies that support these efforts in critically ill adults, implementation of β-lactam precision dosing has not been widely adopted. In this review, we highlight what is known about β-lactam antibiotic pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in critically ill children. We also define the knowledge gaps that present barriers to acceptance and implementation of precision dosing of β-lactam antibiotics in critically ill children: a lack of consensus on which subpopulations would benefit most from precision dosing and the uncertainty of how precision dosing changes outcomes. We conclude with opportunities for further research to close these knowledge gaps.
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- Sonya Tang Girdwood
- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States,Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States,Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States,*Correspondence: Sonya Tang Girdwood,
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States,Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States,Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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Finazzi S, Luci G, Olivieri C, Langer M, Mandelli G, Corona A, Viaggi B, Di Paolo A. Tissue Penetration of Antimicrobials in Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Systematic Review—Part I. Antibiotics (Basel) 2022; 11:antibiotics11091164. [PMID: 36139944 PMCID: PMC9495190 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11091164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2022] [Revised: 08/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
The challenging severity of some infections, especially in critically ill patients, makes the diffusion of antimicrobial drugs within tissues one of the cornerstones of chemotherapy. The knowledge of how antibacterial agents penetrate tissues may come from different sources: preclinical studies in animal models, phase I–III clinical trials and post-registration studies. However, the particular physiopathology of critically ill patients may significantly alter drug pharmacokinetics. Indeed, changes in interstitial volumes (the third space) and/or in glomerular filtration ratio may influence the achievement of bactericidal concentrations in peripheral compartments, while inflammation can alter the systemic distribution of some drugs. On the contrary, other antibacterial agents may reach high and effective concentrations thanks to the increased tissue accumulation of macrophages and neutrophils. Therefore, the present review explores the tissue distribution of beta-lactams and other antimicrobials acting on the cell wall and cytoplasmic membrane of bacteria in critically ill patients. A systematic search of articles was performed according to PRISMA guidelines, and tissue/plasma penetration ratios were collected. Results showed a highly variable passage of drugs within tissues, while large interindividual variability may represent a hurdle which must be overcome to achieve therapeutic concentrations in some compartments. To solve that issue, off-label dosing regimens could represent an effective solution in particular conditions.
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- Stefano Finazzi
- Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 24020 Ranica, Italy
- Associazione GiViTI, c/o Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Associazione GiViTI, c/o Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy
- Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Sant’Andrea Hospital, ASL VC, 13100 Vercelli, Italy
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- Associazione GiViTI, c/o Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy
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- Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 24020 Ranica, Italy
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- ICU and Accident & Emergency Department, ASST Valcamonica, 25043 Breno, Italy
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- Associazione GiViTI, c/o Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy
- Department of Anesthesiology, Neuro-Intensive Care Unit, Florence Careggi University Hospital, 50139 Florence, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Giacobbe DR, Roberts JA, Abdul-Aziz MH, de Montmollin E, Timsit JF, Bassetti M. Treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia due to carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria with novel agents: a contemporary, multidisciplinary ESGCIP perspective. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 2022; 20:963-979. [PMID: 35385681 DOI: 10.1080/14787210.2022.2063838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION : In the past 15 years, treatment of VAP caused by carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (CR-GNB) has represented an intricate challenge for clinicians. AREAS COVERED In this perspective article, we discuss the available clinical data about novel agents for the treatment of CR-GNB VAP, together with general PK/PD principles for the treatment of VAP, in the attempt to provide some suggestions for optimizing antimicrobial therapy of CR-GNB VAP in the daily clinical practice. EXPERT OPINION Recently, novel BL and BL/BLI combinations have become available that have shown potent in vitro activity against CR-GNB and have attracted much interest as novel, less toxic, and possibly more efficacious options for the treatment of CR-GNB VAP compared with previous standard of care. Besides randomized controlled trials, a good solution to enrich our knowledge on how to use these novel agents at best in the near future, while at the same time remaining adherent to current evidence-based guidelines, is to improve our collaboration to conduct larger multinational observational studies to collect sufficiently large populations treated in real life with those novel agents for which guidelines currently do not provide a recommendation (in favor or against) for certain causative organisms.
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- Daniele Roberto Giacobbe
- Infectious Diseases Unit, San Martino Policlinico Hospital - IRCCS for Oncology and Neuroscience, Genoa, Italy.,Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.,Critically ill patients study group (ESGCIP) of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
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- Critically ill patients study group (ESGCIP) of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).,University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.,Herston Infectious Diseases Institute (HeIDI), Metro North Health, Brisbane, Australia.,Departments of Pharmacy and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.,Division of Anaesthesiology Critical Care Emergency and Pain Medicine, Nîmes University Hospital, University of Montpellier, Nîmes France
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- University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Medical and Infectious Diseases Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, Bichat Claude Bernard University Hospital, Paris, France.,INSERM IAME UMR 1137, University of Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, France
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- Critically ill patients study group (ESGCIP) of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).,Medical and Infectious Diseases Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, Bichat Claude Bernard University Hospital, Paris, France.,INSERM IAME UMR 1137, University of Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, France
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- Infectious Diseases Unit, San Martino Policlinico Hospital - IRCCS for Oncology and Neuroscience, Genoa, Italy.,Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.,Critically ill patients study group (ESGCIP) of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
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Quantitative Determination of Unbound Piperacillin and Imipenem in Biological Material from Critically Ill Using Thin-Film Microextraction-Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27030926. [PMID: 35164191 PMCID: PMC8839241 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27030926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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β-Lactam antibiotics are most commonly used in the critically ill, but their effective dosing is challenging and may result in sub-therapeutic concentrations that can lead to therapy failure and even promote antimicrobial resistance. In this study, we present the analytical tool enabling specific and sensitive determination of the sole biologically active fraction of piperacillin and imipenem in biological material from the critically ill. Thin-film microextraction sampling technique, followed by rapid liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis, was optimized and validated for the quantitative determination of antibiotics in blood and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) specimens collected from intensive care unit (ICU) patients suffering from ventilation-associated pneumonia (n = 18 and n = 9, respectively). The method was optimized and proved to meet the criteria of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines for bioanalytical method validation. Highly selective, sensitive, accurate and precise analysis by means of thin-film microextraction–LC-MS/MS, which is not affected by matrix-related factors, was successfully applied in clinical settings, revealing poor penetration of piperacillin and imipenem from blood into BAL fluid (reflecting the site of bacterial infection), nonlinearity in antibiotic binding to plasma-proteins and drug-specific dependence on creatinine clearance. This work demonstrates that only a small fraction of biologically active antibiotics reach the site of infection, providing clinicians with a high-throughput analytical tool for future studies on personalized therapeutic drug monitoring when tailoring the dosing strategy to an individual patient.
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Therapeutic drug monitoring of meropenem and piperacillin-tazobactam in the Singapore critically ill population - A prospective, multi-center, observational study (BLAST 1). J Crit Care 2022; 68:107-113. [PMID: 34999376 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2021.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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PURPOSE To determine percentage of patients with sub-therapeutic beta-lactam exposure in our intensive care units (ICU) and to correlate target attainment with clinical outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS Multi-centre, prospective, observational study was conducted in ICUs from three hospitals in Singapore from July 2016 to May 2018. Adult patients (≥21 years) receiving meropenem or piperacillin-tazobactam were included. Four blood samples were obtained during a dosing interval to measure and determine attainment of therapeutic targets: unbound beta-lactam concentration above (i) minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) at 40% (meropenem) or 50% (piperacillin) of dosing interval (40-50%fT > MIC) and (ii) 5 × MIC at 100% of dosing interval (100%fT > 5 × MIC). Correlation to clinical outcomes was evaluated using Cox regression. RESULTS Beta-lactam levels were highly variable among 61 patients, with trough meropenem and piperacillin levels at 21.5 ± 16.8 mg/L and 101.6 ± 81.1 mg/L respectively. Among 85 sets of blood samples, current dosing practices were able to achieve 94% success for 40-50%fT > MIC and 44% for 100%fT > 5 × MIC. Failure to achieve 40-50%fT > MIC within 48 h was significantly associated with all-cause mortality (HR: 9.0, 95% CI: 1.8-45.0), after adjustment for APACHE II score. Achievement of 100%fT > 5 × MIC within 48 h was significantly associated with shorter length of hospital stay. CONCLUSION Current dosing practices may be suboptimal for ICU patients. Beta-lactam TDM may be useful.
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Penetration of Antibacterial Agents into Pulmonary Epithelial Lining Fluid: An Update. Clin Pharmacokinet 2021; 61:17-46. [PMID: 34651282 PMCID: PMC8516621 DOI: 10.1007/s40262-021-01061-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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A comprehensive review of drug penetration into pulmonary epithelial lining fluid (ELF) was previously published in 2011. Since then, an extensive number of studies comparing plasma and ELF concentrations of antibacterial agents have been published and are summarized in this review. The majority of the studies included in this review determined ELF concentrations of antibacterial agents using bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage, and this review focuses on intrapulmonary penetration ratios determined with area under the concentration-time curve from healthy human adult studies or pharmacokinetic modeling of various antibacterial agents. If available, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic parameters determined from preclinical murine infection models that evaluated ELF concentrations are also provided. There are also a limited number of recently published investigations of intrapulmonary penetration in critically ill patients with lower respiratory tract infections, where greater variability in ELF concentrations may exist. The significance of these changes may impact the intrapulmonary penetration in the setting of infection, and further studies relating ELF concentrations to clinical response are needed. Phase I drug development programs now include assessment of initial pharmacodynamic target values for pertinent organisms in animal models, followed by evaluation of antibacterial penetration into the human lung to assist in dosage selection for clinical trials in infected patients. The recent focus has been on β-lactam agents, including those in combination with β-lactamase inhibitors, particularly due to the rise of multidrug-resistant infections. This manifests as a large portion of the review focusing on cephalosporins and carbapenems, with or without β-lactamase inhibitors, in both healthy adult subjects and critically ill patients with lower respiratory tract infections. Further studies are warranted in critically ill patients with lower respiratory tract infections to evaluate the relationship between intrapulmonary penetration and clinical and microbiological outcomes. Our clinical research experience with these studies, along with this literature review, has allowed us to outline key steps in developing and evaluating dosage regimens to treat extracellular bacteria in lower respiratory tract infections.
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Katsube T, Nicolau DP, Rodvold KA, Wunderink RG, Echols R, Matsunaga Y, Menon A, Portsmouth S, Wajima T. Intrapulmonary pharmacokinetic profile of cefiderocol in mechanically ventilated patients with pneumonia. J Antimicrob Chemother 2021; 76:2902-2905. [PMID: 34383901 PMCID: PMC8521398 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkab280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Lung penetration of cefiderocol, a novel siderophore cephalosporin approved for treatment of nosocomial pneumonia, has previously been evaluated in healthy subjects. This study assessed the intrapulmonary pharmacokinetic profile of cefiderocol at steady state in hospitalized, mechanically ventilated pneumonia patients. METHODS Patients received cefiderocol 2 g (or ≤1.5 g if renally impaired), administered IV q8h as a 3 h infusion, or 2 g q6h if patients had augmented renal function (estimated CLCR > 120 mL/min). After multiple doses, each patient underwent a single bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) procedure either at the end of the infusion or at 2 h after the end of infusion. Plasma samples were collected at 1, 3, 5 and 7 h after the start of infusion. After correcting for BAL dilution, cefiderocol concentrations in epithelial lining fluid (ELF) for each patient and the ELF/unbound plasma concentration ratio (RC, E/P) were calculated. Safety was assessed up to 7 days after the last cefiderocol dose. RESULTS Seven patients received cefiderocol. Geometric mean ELF concentration of cefiderocol was 7.63 mg/L at the end of infusion and 10.40 mg/L at 2 h after the end of infusion. RC, E/P was 0.212 at the end of infusion and 0.547 at 2 h after the end of infusion, suggesting delayed lung distribution. There were no adverse drug reactions. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that cefiderocol penetrates the ELF in critically ill pneumonia patients with concentrations that are sufficient to treat Gram-negative bacteria with an MIC of ≤4 mg/L.
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- Centre for Anti-Infective Research & Development, Hartford
Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago,
IL, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Infectious Disease Drug Development Consulting, LLC, Easton, CT,
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Horner C, Mushtaq S, Allen M, Longshaw C, Reynolds R, Livermore DM. Are resistance rates among bloodstream isolates a good proxy for other infections? Analysis from the BSAC Resistance Surveillance Programme. J Antimicrob Chemother 2021; 76:1822-1831. [PMID: 33822968 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkab096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Bacteraemia data are often used as a general measure of resistance prevalence but may poorly represent other infection types. We compared resistance prevalence between bloodstream infection (BSI) and lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) isolates collected by the BSAC Resistance Surveillance Programme. METHODS BSI isolates (n = 8912) were collected during 2014-18 inclusive and LRTI isolates (n = 6280) between October 2013 to September 2018 from participating laboratories in the UK and Ireland, to a fixed annual quota per species group. LRTI isolates, but not BSI, were selected by onset: community for Streptococcus pneumoniae; hospital for Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacterales. MICs were determined centrally by agar dilution; statistical modelling adjusted for ICU location and possible clustering by collection centre. RESULTS Resistance was more prevalent among the LRTI isolates, even after adjusting for a larger proportion of ICU patients. LRTI P. aeruginosa and S. pneumoniae were more often resistant than BSI isolates for most antibiotics, and the proportion of MRSA was higher in LRTI. For S. pneumoniae, the observation reflected different serotype distributions in LRTI and BSI. Relationships between LRTI and resistance were less marked for Enterobacterales, but LRTI E. coli were more often resistant to β-lactams, particularly penicillin/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations, and LRTI K. pneumoniae to piperacillin/tazobactam. For E. cloacae there was a weak association between LRTI, production of AmpC enzymes and cephalosporin resistance. CONCLUSIONS Estimates of resistance prevalence based upon bloodstream isolates underestimate the extent of the problem in respiratory isolates, particularly for P. aeruginosa, S. pneumoniae, S. aureus and, less so, for Enterobacterales.
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- Carolyne Horner
- British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Birmingham, UK
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- Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections Reference Unit, Public Health England, London, UK
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- British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Birmingham, UK.,Merck Sharp & Dohme (UK) Limited, London, UK
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- British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Birmingham, UK.,Shionogi B.V, London, UK
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- Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Personalized Piperacillin Dosing for the Critically Ill: A Retrospective Analysis of Clinical Experience with Dosing Software and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring to Optimize Antimicrobial Dosing. Antibiotics (Basel) 2021; 10:antibiotics10060667. [PMID: 34205135 PMCID: PMC8227218 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics10060667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Revised: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Optimization of antibiotic dosing is a treatment intervention that is likely to improve outcomes in severe infections. The aim of this retrospective study was to describe the therapeutic exposure of steady state piperacillin concentrations (cPIP) and clinical outcome in critically ill patients with sepsis or septic shock who received continuous infusion of piperacillin with dosing personalized through software-guided empiric dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). Therapeutic drug exposure was defined as cPIP of 32–64 mg/L (2–4× the ‘MIC breakpoint’ of Pseudomonas aeruginosa). Of the 1544 patients screened, we included 179 patients (335 serum concentrations), of whom 89% achieved the minimum therapeutic exposure of >32 mg/L and 12% achieved potentially harmful cPIP > 96 mg/L within the first 48 h. Therapeutic exposure was achieved in 40% of the patients. Subsequent TDM-guided dose adjustments significantly enhanced therapeutic exposure to 65%, and significantly reduced cPIP > 96 mg/L to 5%. Mortality in patients with cPIP > 96 mg/L (13/21; 62%) (OR 5.257, 95% CI 1.867–14.802, p = 0.001) or 64–96 mg/L (30/76; 45%) (OR 2.696, 95% CI 1.301–5.586, p = 0.007) was significantly higher compared to patients with therapeutic exposure (17/72; 24%). Given the observed variability in critically ill patients, combining the application of dosing software and consecutive TDM increases therapeutic drug exposure of piperacillin in patients with sepsis and septic shock.
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El-Haffaf I, Caissy JA, Marsot A. Piperacillin-Tazobactam in Intensive Care Units: A Review of Population Pharmacokinetic Analyses. Clin Pharmacokinet 2021; 60:855-875. [PMID: 33876381 DOI: 10.1007/s40262-021-01013-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Piperacillin-tazobactam is a potent β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor antibiotic commonly prescribed in the intensive care unit setting. Admitted patients often show large variability in treatment response due to multiple pathophysiological changes present in this population that alter the drug's pharmacokinetics. This review summarizes the population pharmacokinetic models developed for piperacillin-tazobactam and provides comprehensive data on current dosing strategies while identifying significant covariates in critically ill patients. A literature search on the PubMed database was conducted, from its inception to July 2020. Relevant articles were retained if they met the defined inclusion/exclusion criteria. A total of ten studies, published between 2009 and 2020, were eligible. One- and two-compartment models were used in two and eight studies, respectively. The lowest estimated piperacillin clearance value was 3.12 L/h, and the highest value was 19.9 L/h. The estimations for volume of distribution varied between 11.2 and 41.2 L. Tazobactam clearance values ranged between 5.1 and 6.78 L/h, and tazobactam volume of distribution values ranged between 17.5 and 76.1 L. The most frequent covariates were creatinine clearance and body weight, each present in four studies. Almost all studies used an exponential approach for the interindividual variability. The highest variability was observed in piperacillin central volume of distribution, at a value of 75.0%. Simulations showed that continuous or extended infusion methods performed better than intermittent administration to achieve appropriate pharmacodynamic targets. This review synthesizes important pharmacokinetic elements for piperacillin-tazobactam in an intensive care unit setting. This will help clinicians better understand changes in the drug's pharmacokinetic parameters in this specific population.
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- Ibrahim El-Haffaf
- Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, 2940 Chemin de Polytechnique, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada. .,Laboratoire de Suivi Thérapeutique Pharmacologique et Pharmacocinétique, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, 2940 Chemin de Polytechnique, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada.,Laboratoire de Suivi Thérapeutique Pharmacologique et Pharmacocinétique, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, 2940 Chemin de Polytechnique, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada.,Laboratoire de Suivi Thérapeutique Pharmacologique et Pharmacocinétique, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.,Centre de recherche, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Custodio MM, Sanchez D, Anderson B, Ryan KL, Walraven C, Mercier RC. Emergence of Resistance in Klebsiella aerogenes to Piperacillin-Tazobactam and Ceftriaxone. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2021; 65:e01038-20. [PMID: 33139285 PMCID: PMC7848979 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01038-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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We examined the effects of piperacillin-tazobactam (TZP) concentration and bacterial inoculum on in vitro killing and the emergence of resistance in Klebsiella aerogenes The MICs for 15 clinical respiratory isolates were determined by broth microdilution for TZP and by Etest for ceftriaxone (CRO) and cefepime (FEP). The presence of resistance in TZP-susceptible isolates (n = 10) was determined by serial passes over increasing concentrations of TZP-containing and CRO-containing agar plates. Isolates with growth on TZP 16/4-μg/ml and CRO 8-μg/ml plates (n = 5) were tested in high-inoculum (HI; 7.0 log10 CFU/ml) and low-inoculum (LI; 5.0 log10 CFU/ml) time-kill studies. Antibiotic concentrations were selected to approximate TZP 3.375 g every 8 h (q8h) via a 4-h prolonged-infusion free peak concentration (40 μg/ml [TZP40]), peak epithelial lining fluid (ELF) concentrations, and average AUC0-24 values for TZP (20 μg/ml [TZP20] and 10 μg/ml [TZP10], respectively), the ELF FEP concentration (14 μg/ml), and the average AUC0-24 CRO concentration (6 μg/ml). For HI, FEP exposure significantly reduced 24-h inocula against all comparators (P ≤ 0.05) with a reduction of 4.93 ± 0.64 log10 CFU/ml. Exposure to TZP40, TZP20, and TZP10 reduced inocula by 0.81 ± 0.43, 0.21 ± 0.18, and 0.05 ± 0.16 log10 CFU/ml, respectively. CRO-exposed isolates demonstrated an increase of 0.42 ± 0.39 log10 CFU/ml compared to the starting inocula, with four of five CRO-exposed isolates demonstrating TZP-nonsusceptibility. At LI after 24 h of exposure to TZP20 and TZP10, the starting inoculum decreased by averages of 2.24 ± 1.98 and 2.91 ± 0.50 log10 CFU/ml, respectively. TZP demonstrated significant inoculum-dependent killing, warranting dose optimization studies.
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- Marco M Custodio
- Department of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Hospitals, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Hospitals, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Hospitals, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Short-Term Effects of Appropriate Empirical Antimicrobial Treatment with Ceftolozane/Tazobactam in a Swine Model of Nosocomial Pneumonia. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2021; 65:AAC.01899-20. [PMID: 33168605 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01899-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The rising frequency of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant (MDR/XDR) pathogens is making more frequent the inappropriate empirical antimicrobial therapy (IEAT) in nosocomial pneumonia, which is associated with increased mortality. We aim to determine the short-term benefits of appropriate empirical antimicrobial treatment (AEAT) with ceftolozane/tazobactam (C/T) compared with IEAT with piperacillin/tazobactam (TZP) in MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia. Twenty-one pigs with pneumonia caused by an XDR P. aeruginosa strain (susceptible to C/T but resistant to TZP) were ventilated for up to 72 h. Twenty-four hours after bacterial challenge, animals were randomized to receive 2-day treatment with either intravenous saline (untreated) or 25 to 50 mg of C/T per kg body weight (AEAT) or 200 to 225 mg of TZP per kg (IEAT) every 8 h. The primary outcome was the P. aeruginosa burden in lung tissue and the histopathology injury. P. aeruginosa burden in tracheal secretions and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, the development of antibiotic resistance, and inflammatory markers were secondary outcomes. Overall, P. aeruginosa lung burden was 5.30 (range, 4.00 to 6.30), 4.04 (3.64 to 4.51), and 4.04 (3.05 to 4.88) log10CFU/g in the untreated, AEAT, and IEAT groups, respectively (P = 0.299), without histopathological differences (P = 0.556). In contrast, in tracheal secretions (P < 0.001) and BAL fluid (P = 0.002), bactericidal efficacy was higher in the AEAT group. An increased MIC to TZP was found in 3 animals, while resistance to C/T did not develop. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) was significantly downregulated by AEAT in comparison to other groups (P = 0.031). In a mechanically ventilated swine model of XDR P. aeruginosa pneumonia, appropriate initial treatment with C/T decreased respiratory secretions' bacterial burden, prevented development of resistance, achieved the pharmacodynamic target, and may have reduced systemic inflammation. However, after only 2 days of treatment, P. aeruginosa tissue concentrations were moderately affected.
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Felton TW, Ogungbenro K, Boselli E, Hope WW, Rodvold KA. Comparison of piperacillin exposure in the lungs of critically ill patients and healthy volunteers. J Antimicrob Chemother 2019; 73:1340-1347. [PMID: 29385448 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkx541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 12/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background Severe infections of the respiratory tracts of critically ill patients are common and associated with excess morbidity and mortality. Piperacillin is commonly used to treat pulmonary infections in critically ill patients. Adequate antibiotic concentration in the epithelial lining fluid (ELF) of the lung is essential for successful treatment of pulmonary infection. Objectives To compare piperacillin pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics in the serum and ELF of healthy volunteers and critically ill patients. Methods Piperacillin concentrations in the serum and ELF of healthy volunteers and critically ill patients were compared using population methodologies. Results Median piperacillin exposure was significantly higher in the serum and the ELF of critically ill patients compared with healthy volunteers. The IQR for serum piperacillin exposure in critically ill patients was six times greater than for healthy volunteers. The IQR for piperacillin exposure in the ELF of critically ill patients was four times greater than for healthy volunteers. The median pulmonary piperacillin penetration ratio was 0.31 in healthy volunteers and 0.54 in critically ill patients. Conclusions Greater variability in serum and ELF piperacillin concentrations is observed in critically ill patients compared with healthy adult subjects and must be considered in the development of dosage regimens. Pulmonary penetration of antimicrobial agents should be studied in critically ill patients, as well as healthy volunteers, during drug development to ensure appropriate dosing of patients with pneumonia.
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- T W Felton
- Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.,Acute Intensive Care Unit, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- APCSe UPSP 2016.A101, VetAgro Sup, University Lyon I Claude Bernard, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Ogungbenro K, Patel A, Saunders M, Clark J, Duncombe R. An evaluation of cetuximab dosing strategies using pharmacokinetics and cost analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 71:1222-1230. [PMID: 31124587 DOI: 10.1111/jphp.13108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 05/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Cetuximab dosing is based on body surface area (BSA), an approach that is associated with significant wastage due to available vial sizes. NHS England recently introduced an alternative strategy for cetuximab dosing based on dose banding. The aim of this work was to investigate approaches to cetuximab dosing to improve its cost-effectiveness. METHODS A simulation study using a population pharmacokinetic model was used to assess the performance of dosing strategies using exposure, probability of target attainment and cost. Two dosage regimens (500 and 400/250 mg/m2 ) were investigated; 5% and 10% dose banding, fixed and optimised dosing strategies were evaluated and compared to BSA strategy. KEY FINDINGS The percentage of the total cost associated with wastage for the 400/250 mg/m2 regimen were 8.75%, 5.13%, 3.61%, 9.2% and 0% for BSA; 5 and 10% bands; fixed and optimal strategies, respectively. Similar results were obtained for 500 mg/m2 regimen. In comparison with BSA strategy, other strategies have comparable or improved performance. Optimised strategy showed consistent performance and ensures equal exposure and probability of target attainment. CONCLUSIONS Cost-effectiveness of cetuximab treatment can be improved with alternative strategies by reducing wastage without compromising exposure.
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- Kayode Ogungbenro
- Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetic Research, Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.,The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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Heffernan AJ, Sime FB, Lipman J, Dhanani J, Andrews K, Ellwood D, Grimwood K, Roberts JA. Intrapulmonary pharmacokinetics of antibiotics used to treat nosocomial pneumonia caused by Gram-negative bacilli: A systematic review. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2019; 53:234-245. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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How to optimize antibiotic pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics for Gram-negative infections in critically ill patients. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2018; 31:555-565. [DOI: 10.1097/qco.0000000000000494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Lonsdale DO, Baker EH, Kipper K, Barker C, Philips B, Rhodes A, Sharland M, Standing JF. Scaling beta-lactam antimicrobial pharmacokinetics from early life to old age. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2018; 85:316-346. [PMID: 30176176 DOI: 10.1111/bcp.13756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Revised: 08/02/2018] [Accepted: 08/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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AIMS Beta-lactam dose optimization in critical care is a current priority. We aimed to review the pharmacokinetics (PK) of three commonly used beta-lactams (amoxicillin ± clavulanate, piperacillin-tazobactam and meropenem) to compare PK parameters reported in critically and noncritically ill neonates, children and adults, and to investigate whether allometric and maturation scaling principles could be applied to describe changes in PK parameters through life. METHODS A systematic review of PK studies of the three drugs was undertaken using MEDLINE and EMBASE. PK parameters and summary statistics were extracted and scaled using allometric principles to 70 kg individual for comparison. Pooled data were used to model clearance maturation and decline using a sigmoidal (Hill) function. RESULTS A total of 130 papers were identified. Age ranged from 29 weeks to 82 years and weight from 0.9-200 kg. PK parameters from critically ill populations were reported with wider confidence intervals than those in healthy volunteers, indicating greater PK variability in critical illness. The standard allometric size and sigmoidal maturation model adequately described increasing clearance in neonates, and a sigmoidal model was also used to describe decline in older age. Adult weight-adjusted clearance was achieved at approximately 2 years postmenstrual age. Changes in volume of distribution were well described by the standard allometric model, although amoxicillin data suggested a relatively higher volume of distribution in neonates. CONCLUSIONS Critical illness is associated with greater PK variability than in healthy volunteers. The maturation models presented will be useful for optimizing beta-lactam dosing, although a prospective, age-inclusive study is warranted for external validation.
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- Dagan O Lonsdale
- Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, UK.,St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, UK.,St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, UK.,Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.,Analytical Services International Ltd
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- Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, UK
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- Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, UK.,St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, UK.,St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, UK.,St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.,UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.,Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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O'Donnell JN, Rhodes NJ, Lopez J, Jett R, Scheetz MH. Carbapenems vs. alternative β-lactams for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2018; 52:451-458. [PMID: 29665442 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Revised: 04/04/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Carbapenems have shown efficacy in treating nosocomial pneumonias in clinical trials despite a reported low lung penetration compared with other β-lactams. Preserving the clinical activity of carbapenems through stewardship efforts is essential. The aim of this review was to identify any differences in outcomes potentially as a function of decreased penetration. METHODS PubMed and the Cochrane Library were systematically searched for clinical trials comparing carbapenems with other anti-pseudomonal β-lactams for treatment of nosocomial pneumonia through to end December 2016. Trials reporting clinical and microbiological outcomes associated with treatment were included. Pediatric studies and those with uneven comparators (e.g., carbapenem vs. combination Gram-negative therapy) were excluded. Fixed effects models were used to evaluate the impact of treatment on the odds of clinical failure, death, or microbiological failure. RESULTS 252 unique articles were identified; five met inclusion criteria and comprised 640 patients in the carbapenem group and 634 patients in the β-lactam group. No differences in clinical failure (odds ratio [OR] 1.08, 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.81-1.44], I2=16%) or mortality (OR 0.75, CI 0.57-1.11, I2=0%) were noted between groups. Patients infected with P. aeruginosa and treated with imipenem were more likely to experience clinical failure (OR 4.21, CI 1.51-11.12, I2=44%) and to develop resistance to the study carbapenem (OR 2.86, CI 1.08-6.44, I2= 13%) than those treated with alternative β-lactams. CONCLUSIONS No differences in clinical outcomes were observed between carbapenems and non-carbapenem β-lactams in nosocomial pneumonias. Those infected with P. aeruginosa fared worse and were more likely to have resistance develop if they were treated with imipenem. Additional studies are warranted.
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- J Nicholas O'Donnell
- Department of Pharmacy Practice, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY, USA.
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- Chicago College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, USA; Department of Pharmacy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacy, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, USA; College of Graduate Studies, Department of Pharmacology, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, USA.
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Veiga RP, Paiva JA. Pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics issues relevant for the clinical use of beta-lactam antibiotics in critically ill patients. Crit Care 2018; 22:233. [PMID: 30244674 PMCID: PMC6151903 DOI: 10.1186/s13054-018-2155-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Accepted: 08/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Antimicrobials are among the most important and commonly prescribed drugs in the management of critically ill patients and beta-lactams are the most common antibiotic class used. Critically ill patient's pathophysiological factors lead to altered pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of beta-lactams.A comprehensive bibliographic search in PubMed database of all English language articles published from January 2000 to December 2017 was performed, allowing the selection of articles addressing the pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics of beta-lactam antibiotics in critically ill patients.In critically ill patients, several factors may increase volume of distribution and enhance renal clearance, inducing high intra- and inter-patient variability in beta-lactam concentration and promoting the risk of antibiotic underdosing. The duration of infusion of beta-lactams has been shown to influence the fT > minimal inhibitory concentration and an improved beta-lactam pharmacodynamics profile may be obtained by longer exposure with more frequent dosing, extended infusions, or continuous infusions.The use of extracorporeal support techniques in the critically ill may further contribute to this problem and we recommend not reducing standard antibiotic dosage since no drug accumulation was found in the available literature and to maintain continuous or prolonged infusion, especially for the treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria.Prediction of outcome based on concentrations in plasma results in overestimation of antimicrobial activity at the site of infection, namely in cerebrospinal fluid and the lung. Therefore, although no studies have assessed clinical outcome, we recommend using higher than standard dosing, preferably with continuous or prolonged infusions, especially when treating less susceptible bacterial strains at these sites, as the pharmacodynamics profile may improve with no apparent increase in toxicity.A therapeutic drug monitoring-guided approach could be particularly useful in critically ill patients in whom achieving target concentrations is more difficult, such as obese patients, immunocompromised patients, those infected by highly resistant bacterial strains, patients with augmented renal clearance, and those undergoing extracorporeal support techniques.
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- Rui Pedro Veiga
- Centro Hospitalar São João, EPE – Intensive Care Department, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine – University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Grupo Infeção e Sepsis, Porto, Portugal
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- Centro Hospitalar São João, EPE – Intensive Care Department, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine – University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Grupo Infeção e Sepsis, Porto, Portugal
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Dimelow R, Wright JG, MacPherson M, Newell P, Das S. Population Pharmacokinetic Modelling of Ceftazidime and Avibactam in the Plasma and Epithelial Lining Fluid of Healthy Volunteers. Drugs R D 2018; 18:221-230. [PMID: 30054895 PMCID: PMC6131119 DOI: 10.1007/s40268-018-0241-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Our objective was to develop population pharmacokinetic (PK) models for ceftazidime and avibactam in the plasma and epithelial lining fluid (ELF) of healthy volunteers and to compare ELF concentrations to plasma PK/pharmacodynamic (PD) targets. METHODS Plasma and ELF population PK models were developed for ceftazidime and avibactam concentration data from 42 subjects (NCT01395420). Two- and three-compartment plasma PK models were fitted to ceftazidime and avibactam plasma PK data, and different plasma-ELF linked models were evaluated. Using best-fitting models, plasma and ELF concentration-time profiles were simulated for 1000 subjects. ELF concentration-time profiles for ceftazidime/avibactam 2000-500 mg every 8 h were compared with plasma PK/PD targets for ceftazidime (50% of time above [fT >] 8 mg/l) and avibactam (50% fT > 1 mg/l). RESULTS Three-compartment PK models best fitted the plasma concentration data for ceftazidime and avibactam. ELF data for both drugs were best described by a direct response (instantaneous equilibrium) model. Ceftazidime plasma-ELF relationships were best described by a saturable Michaelis-Menten model. For avibactam, departure from plasma-ELF relationship linearity was more modest than for ceftazidime. ELF:plasma penetration ratios of both ceftazidime (52%) and avibactam (42%) at plasma concentrations relevant for efficacy (~ 8 mg/l for ceftazidime and ~ 1 mg/l for avibactam) were greater than previously calculated using non-compartmental area under the curve (AUC) methods, which average across the entire concentration range. Ceftazidime and avibactam ELF exposures exceeded their respective plasma PK/PD time-above-threshold targets by the dosing interval mid-point in most subjects. CONCLUSIONS This compartmental modelling analysis suggests ELF exposures of both ceftazidime and avibactam exceed levels required for efficacy in plasma.
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- Richard Dimelow
- Wright Dose Ltd, Altrincham, Cheshire, UK
- GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, UK
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- Wright Dose Ltd, Altrincham, Cheshire, UK
- SGS Exprimo, Mechelen, Belgium
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- AstraZeneca Global Medicines Development, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK
- , Knutsford, Cheshire, UK
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- AstraZeneca Global Medicines Development, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.
- Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutics, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, Sherrington Building, Liverpool, L69 3GA, UK.
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Population Pharmacokinetics and Cerebrospinal Fluid Penetration of Fluconazole in Adults with Cryptococcal Meningitis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2018; 62:AAC.00885-18. [PMID: 29914943 PMCID: PMC6125572 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00885-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Robust population pharmacokinetic (PK) data for fluconazole are scarce. The variability of fluconazole penetration into the central nervous system (CNS) is not known. Robust population pharmacokinetic (PK) data for fluconazole are scarce. The variability of fluconazole penetration into the central nervous system (CNS) is not known. A fluconazole PK study was conducted in 43 patients receiving oral fluconazole (usually 800 mg every 24 h [q24h]) in combination with amphotericin B deoxycholate (1 mg/kg q24h) for cryptococcal meningitis (CM). A four-compartment PK model was developed, and Monte Carlo simulations were performed for a range of fluconazole dosages. A meta-analysis of trials reporting outcomes of CM patients treated with fluconazole monotherapy was performed. Adjusted for bioavailability, the PK parameter means (standard deviation) were the following: clearance, 0.72 (0.24) liters/h; volume of the central compartment, 18.07 (6.31) liters; volume of the CNS compartment, 32.07 (17.60) liters; first-order rate constant from the central to peripheral compartment, 12.20 (11.17) h−1, from the peripheral to central compartment, 18.10 (8.25) h−1, from the central to CNS compartment, 35.43 (13.74) h−1, and from the CNS to central the compartment, 28.63 (10.03) h−1. Simulations of the area under concentration-time curve resulted in median (interquartile range) values of 1,143.2 (range, 988.4 to 1,378.0) mg · h/liter in plasma (AUCplasma) and 982.9 (range, 781.0 to 1,185.9) mg · h/liter in cerebrospinal fluid (AUCCSF) after a dosage of 1,200 mg q24h. The mean simulated ratio of AUCCSF/AUCplasma was 0.89 (standard deviation [SD], 0.44). The recommended dosage of fluconazole for CM induction therapy fails to attain the pharmacodynamic (PD) target in respect to the wild-type MIC distribution for C. neoformans. The meta-analysis suggested modest improvements in both CSF sterility and mortality outcomes with escalating dosage. This study provides the pharmacodynamic rationale for the long-recognized fact that fluconazole monotherapy is an inadequate induction regimen for CM.
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Ahmed N, Jen SP, Altshuler D, Papadopoulos J, Pham VP, Dubrovskaya Y. Evaluation of Meropenem Extended Versus Intermittent Infusion Dosing Protocol in Critically Ill Patients. J Intensive Care Med 2018; 35:763-771. [PMID: 29954243 DOI: 10.1177/0885066618784264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Extended infusion (EI) administration of β-lactams can improve target attainment in critically ill patients with altered pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics. To optimize meropenem dosing in patients with severe sepsis/septic shock, our Antimicrobial Stewardship Program implemented a EI meropenem (EIM) protocol in an 18-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit in March 2014. In this retrospective study, we compared intensive care unit (ICU) mortality and clinical response in patients who received meropenem for ≥72 hours administered per EIM protocol of 1 g over 3 hours every 8 hours versus intermittent infusion (IIM) protocol of 500 mg over 30 minutes every 6 hours. Age, weight, comorbidities, severity of illness, and vasopressor use were comparable between groups (EIM protocol n = 52, IIM protocol n = 96). The IIM protocol group had higher rates of renal dose adjustment at meropenem initiation. Among 56 identified gram-negative (GN) pathogens, 94% had meropenem minimal inhibitory concentration ≤0.25 mg/L. The ICU mortality was lower (19 vs 37%; P = .032) and clinical response was higher (83% vs 46%; P < .01) in the EIM protocol versus IIM protocol group. Total vasopressor days were shorter (2 vs 3 days; P = .038), and white blood cell normalization rate was higher (87% vs 51%; P < .01) in the EIM protocol versus IIM protocol group. There was no difference in days of mechanical ventilation, duration of therapy, and ICU stay. The IIM protocol was also identified as an independent risk factor associated with ICU mortality (hazard ratio: 3.653, 95% confidence interval: 1.689-7.981; P = .001) after adjusting for Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score. In this cohort of patients with severe sepsis/septic shock and highly susceptible GN pathogens, there was improved mortality and clinical response in the EIM protocol group.
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- Nabeela Ahmed
- Department of Pharmacy, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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Deshpande D, Srivastava S, Bendet P, Martin KR, Cirrincione KN, Lee PS, Pasipanodya JG, Dheda K, Gumbo T. Antibacterial and Sterilizing Effect of Benzylpenicillin in Tuberculosis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2018; 62:e02232-17. [PMID: 29180526 PMCID: PMC5786797 DOI: 10.1128/aac.02232-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2017] [Accepted: 11/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The modern chemotherapy era started with Fleming's discovery of benzylpenicillin. He demonstrated that benzylpenicillin did not kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis In this study, we found that >64 mg/liter of static benzylpenicillin concentrations killed 1.16 to 1.43 log10 CFU/ml below starting inoculum of extracellular and intracellular M. tuberculosis over 7 days. When we added the β-lactamase inhibitor avibactam, benzylpenicillin maximal kill (Emax) of extracellular log-phase-growth M. tuberculosis was 6.80 ± 0.45 log10 CFU/ml at a 50% effective concentration (EC50) of 15.11 ± 2.31 mg/liter, while for intracellular M. tuberculosis it was 2.42 ± 0.14 log10 CFU/ml at an EC50 of 6.70 ± 0.56 mg/liter. The median penicillin (plus avibactam) MIC against South African clinical M. tuberculosis strains (80% either multidrug or extensively drug resistant) was 2 mg/liter. We mimicked human-like benzylpenicillin and avibactam concentration-time profiles in the hollow-fiber model of tuberculosis (HFS-TB). The percent time above the MIC was linked to effect, with an optimal exposure of ≥65%. At optimal exposure in the HFS-TB, the bactericidal activity in log-phase-growth M. tuberculosis was 1.44 log10 CFU/ml/day, while 3.28 log10 CFU/ml of intracellular M. tuberculosis was killed over 3 weeks. In an 8-week HFS-TB study of nonreplicating persistent M. tuberculosis, penicillin-avibactam alone and the drug combination of isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide both killed >7.0 log10 CFU/ml. Monte Carlo simulations of 10,000 preterm infants with disseminated disease identified an optimal dose of 10,000 U/kg (of body weight)/h, while for pregnant women or nonpregnant adults with pulmonary tuberculosis the optimal dose was 25,000 U/kg/h, by continuous intravenous infusion. Penicillin-avibactam should be examined for effect in pregnant women and infants with drug-resistant tuberculosis, to replace injectable ototoxic and teratogenic second-line drugs.
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- Devyani Deshpande
- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Falcone M, Viale P, Tiseo G, Pai M. Pharmacokinetic drug evaluation of avibactam + ceftazidime for the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia. Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol 2018; 14:331-340. [PMID: 29373935 DOI: 10.1080/17425255.2018.1434142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Ceftazidime-avibactam (CAZ-AVI) is a combination of a third-generation cephalosporin and a non-β-lactam, β-lactamase inhibitor, recently approved for urinary tract infections and complicated abdominal infections. Moreover, it represents a treatment option for patients with hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP), especially when caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. Areas covered: The review focuses on the pharmacokinetics (PK) of CAZ-AVI in HAP and on preclinical and clinical studies evaluating PK/pharmacodynamics (PD) in this field. Expert opinion: In vitro and in vivo data about PK/PD of CAZ-AVI confirm that penetration of CAZ-AVI in the epithelial lining fluid (ELF) represents approximately 30% of the plasma concentrations. Clinical studies documented that CAZ-AVI 2000 mg/500 mg every 8 h is the optimal dose regimen to achieve the PK/PD target attainment in patients with HAP. Thus, CAZ-AVI could represent an option both to treat HAP caused by Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) displaying resistance to most of the antibiotics and to reduce the use of carbapenems, limiting the onset of resistance profiles among GNB. Additional information about specific patients populations, such as critically-ill subjects or pediatric patients, are needed for a more individualized use of CAZ-AVI.
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- Marco Falcone
- a Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases , "Sapienza" University of Rome , Rome , Italy
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- b Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences , Hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi, University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy
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- c Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties , "Sapienza" University of Rome , Rome , Italy
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- d Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences , University of Michigan , Albany , NY , USA
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Pilmis B, Jullien V, Tabah A, Zahar JR, Brun-Buisson C. Piperacillin-tazobactam as alternative to carbapenems for ICU patients. Ann Intensive Care 2017; 7:113. [PMID: 29127502 PMCID: PMC5681454 DOI: 10.1186/s13613-017-0334-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 10/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Several studies suggest that alternatives to carbapenems, and particulary beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations, can be used for therapy of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE)-related infections in non-ICU patients. Little is known concerning ICU patients in whom achieving the desired plasmatic pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) target may be difficult. Also, in vitro susceptibility to beta-lactamase inhibitors might not translate into clinical efficacy. We reviewed the recent clinical studies examining the use of BL/BLI as alternatives to carbapenems for therapy of bloodstream infection, PK/PD data and discuss potential ecological benefit from avoiding the use of carbapenems. With the lack of prospective randomized studies, treating ICU patients with ESBL-PE-related infections using piperacillin-tazobactam should be done with caution. Current data suggest that BL/BLI empirical use should be avoided for therapy of ESBL-PE-related infection. Also, definitive therapy should be reserved to patients in clinical stable condition, after microbial documentation and results of susceptibility tests. Optimization of administration and higher dosage should be used in order to reach pharmacological targets.
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- Benoit Pilmis
- Service de maladies infectieuses et tropicales, Hôpital Necker Enfants malades, Service de maladies infectieuses et tropicales, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.,Equipe mobile de microbiologie clinique, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, Paris, France
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- Service de Pharmacologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.,INSERM U1129, Paris, France
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- Intensive Care Unit, The Redcliffe Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.,Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Département de Microbiologie Clinique, Unité de Contrôle et de Prévention du risque Infectieux, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Seine Saint-Denis, AP-HP, CHU Avicenne, 125 rue de Stalingrad, 9300, Bobigny, France. .,Infection Control Unit, IAME, UMR 1137, Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
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- Réanimation médicale, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), Créteil, France
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Echeverria KO, Lascola KM, Giguère S, Foreman JH, Austin SA. Pulmonary disposition and pharmacokinetics of minocycline in adult horses. Am J Vet Res 2017; 78:1319-1328. [DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.78.11.1319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Rodvold KA, Hope WW, Boyd SE. Considerations for effect site pharmacokinetics to estimate drug exposure: concentrations of antibiotics in the lung. Curr Opin Pharmacol 2017; 36:114-123. [PMID: 29096171 DOI: 10.1016/j.coph.2017.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2017] [Revised: 09/25/2017] [Accepted: 09/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and microdialysis have become the most reliable and relevant methods for measuring lung concentrations of antibiotics, with the majority of BAL studies involving either healthy adult subjects or patients undergoing diagnostic bronchoscopy. Emphasis on the amount of drug that reaches the site of infection is increasingly recognized as necessary to determine whether a dose selection will translate to good clinical outcomes in the treatment of patients with pneumonia. Observed concentrations and/or parameters of exposure (e.g. area-under-the-curve) need to be incorporated with pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic indices so that rational dose selection can be identified for specific pathogens and types of pneumonic infection (community-acquired vs hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia, including ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia). Although having measured plasma or lung concentration-time data from critically ill patients to incorporate into pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic models is very unlikely during drug development, it is essential that altered distribution, augmented renal clearance, and renal or hepatic dysfunction should be considered. Notably, the number of published studies involving microdialysis and intrapulmonary penetration of antibiotics has been limited and mainly involve beta-lactam agents, levofloxacin, and fosfomycin. Opportunities to measure in high-resolution effect site spatial pharmacokinetics (e.g. with MALDI-MSI or PET imaging) and in vivo continuous drug concentrations (e.g. with aptamer-based probes) now exist. Going forward these studies could be incorporated into antibiotic development programs for pneumonia in order to further increase the probability of candidate success.
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- Keith A Rodvold
- Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutics, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutics, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunity, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Ogungbenro K, Patel A, Duncombe R, Nuttall R, Clark J, Lorigan P. Dose Rationalization of Pembrolizumab and Nivolumab Using Pharmacokinetic Modeling and Simulation and Cost Analysis. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2017; 103:582-590. [PMID: 28913853 DOI: 10.1002/cpt.875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Pembrolizumab and nivolumab are highly selective anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) antibodies approved for the treatment of advanced malignancies. Variable exposure and significant wastage have been associated with body size dosing of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The following dosing strategies were evaluated using simulations: body weight, dose banding, fixed dose, and pharmacokinetic (PK)-based methods. The relative cost to body weight dosing for band, fixed 150 mg and 200 mg, and PK-derived strategies were -15%, -25%, + 7%, and -16% for pembrolizumab and -8%, -6%, and -10% for band, fixed, and PK-derived strategies for nivolumab, respectively. Relative to mg/kg doses, the median exposures were -1.0%, -4.6%, + 27.1%, and +3.0% for band, fixed 150 mg, fixed 200 mg, and PK-derived strategies, respectively, for pembrolizumab and -3.1%, + 1.9%, and +1.4% for band, fixed 240 mg, and PK-derived strategies, respectively, for nivolumab. Significant wastage can be reduced by alternative dosing strategies without compromising exposure and efficacy.
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- Kayode Ogungbenro
- Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetic Research, Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.,Institute of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester
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Repeated Piperacillin-Tazobactam Plasma Concentration Measurements in Severely Obese Versus Nonobese Critically Ill Septic Patients and the Risk of Under- and Overdosing. Crit Care Med 2017; 45:e470-e478. [PMID: 28240688 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000002287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Obesity and critical illness modify pharmacokinetics of antibiotics, but piperacillin-tazobactam continuous IV infusion pharmacokinetics has been poorly studied in obese critically ill patients. We aimed to compare pharmacokinetics of piperacillin in severely obese and nonobese patients with severe sepsis or septic shock. We hypothesized that plasma concentration variability would expose the critically ill to both piperacillin under and overdosing. METHODS Prospective comparative study. Consecutive critically ill severely obese (body mass index, > 35 kg/m) and nonobese patients (body mass index, < 30 kg/m) were treated with 16 g/2 g/24 hr continuous piperacillin-tazobactam infusion. Piperacillin plasma concentration was measured every 12 hours over a 7-day period by high-pressure liquid chromatography. Unbound piperacillin plasma concentration and fractional time of plasma concentration spent over 64 mg/L (4-fold the minimal inhibitory concentration for Pseudomonas aeruginosa) were compared between the two groups. We performed 5,000 Monte Carlo simulations for various dosing regimens and minimal inhibitory concentration and calculated the probability to spend 100% of the time over 64 mg/L. RESULTS We enrolled 11 severely obese and 12 nonobese patients and obtained 294 blood samples. We did not observe a statistically significant difference in piperacillin plasma concentrations over time between groups. The fractional time over 64 mg/L was 64% (43-82%) and 93% (85-100%) in obese and nonobese patients, respectively, p = 0.027 with intra- and intergroup variability. Five nonobese and two obese patients experienced potentially toxic piperacillin plasma concentrations. When 64 mg/L was targeted, Monte Carlo simulations showed that 12 g/1.5 g/24 hr was inadequate in both groups and 16 g/2 g/24 hr was adequate only in nonobese patients. CONCLUSION Using a conventional dosing of 16 g/2 g/24 hr continuous infusion, obese patients were more likely than nonobese patients to experience piperacillin underdosing when facing high minimal inhibitory concentration pathogens. The present study suggests that piperacillin drug monitoring might be necessary in the sickest patients who are at the highest risk of unpredictable plasma concentration exposing them to overdose, toxicity, underdosing, and treatment failure.
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Pharmacokinetics of Piperacillin in Critically Ill Australian Indigenous Patients with Severe Sepsis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2016; 60:7402-7406. [PMID: 27736759 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01657-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 09/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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There are no available pharmacokinetic data to guide piperacillin dosing in critically ill Australian Indigenous patients despite numerous reported physiological differences. This study aimed to describe the population pharmacokinetics of piperacillin in critically ill Australian Indigenous patients with severe sepsis. A population pharmacokinetic study of Indigenous patients with severe sepsis was conducted in a remote hospital intensive care unit. Plasma samples were collected over two dosing intervals and assayed by validated chromatography. Population pharmacokinetic modeling was conducted using Pmetrics. Nine patients were recruited, and a two-compartment model adequately described the data. The piperacillin clearance (CL), volume of distribution of the central compartment (Vc), and distribution rate constants from the central to the peripheral compartment and from the peripheral to the central compartment were 5.6 ± 3.2 liters/h, 14.5 ± 6.6 liters, 1.5 ± 0.4 h-1, and 1.8 ± 0.9 h-1, respectively, where CL and Vc were found to be described by creatinine clearance (CLCR) and total body weight, respectively. In this patient population, piperacillin demonstrated high interindividual pharmacokinetic variability. CLCR was found to be the most important determinant of piperacillin pharmacokinetics.
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Onufrak NJ, Forrest A, Gonzalez D. Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Principles of Anti-infective Dosing. Clin Ther 2016; 38:1930-47. [PMID: 27449411 PMCID: PMC5039113 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2016.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Revised: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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PURPOSE An understanding of the pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) principles that determine response to antimicrobial therapy can provide the clinician with better-informed dosing regimens. Factors influential on antibiotic disposition and clinical outcome are presented, with a focus on the primary site of infection. Techniques to better understand antibiotic PK and optimize PD are acknowledged. METHODS PubMed (inception-April 2016) was reviewed for relevant publications assessing antimicrobial exposures within different anatomic locations and clinical outcomes for various infection sites. FINDINGS A limited literature base indicates variable penetration of antibiotics to different target sites of infection, with drug solubility and extent of protein binding providing significant PK influences in addition to the major clearing pathway of the agent. PD indices derived from in vitro studies and animal models determine the optimal magnitude and frequency of dosing regimens for patients. PK/PD modeling and simulation has been shown an efficient means of assessing these PD endpoints against a variety of PK determinants, clarifying the unique effects of infection site and patient characteristics to inform the adequacy of a given antibiotic regimen. IMPLICATIONS Appreciation of the PK properties of an antibiotic and its PD measure of efficacy can maximize the utility of these life-saving drugs. Unfortunately, clinical data remain limited for a number of infection site-antibiotic exposure relationships. Modeling and simulation can bridge preclinical and patient data for the prescription of optimal antibiotic dosing regimens, consistent with the tenets of personalized medicine.
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- Nikolas J Onufrak
- Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Phe K, Cadle RM, Guervil DJ, Guzman OE, Lockwood AM, Perez KK, Vuong NN, Aitken SL. Significant publications on infectious diseases pharmacotherapy in 2014. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2016; 72:1380-92. [PMID: 26246295 DOI: 10.2146/ajhp150112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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PURPOSE The most important articles on infectious diseases (ID) pharmacotherapy published in the peer-reviewed literature in 2014, as nominated and selected by panels of pharmacists and others with ID expertise, are summarized. SUMMARY Members of the Houston Infectious Diseases Network were asked to nominate articles published in 2014 from prominent peer-reviewed journals that were felt to have a major impact in the field of ID pharmacotherapy. A list of 19 nominated articles on general ID-related topics and 9 articles specifically related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was compiled. In a national online survey, members of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) were asked to select from the list 10 general ID articles believed to have made a significant contribution to the field of ID pharmacotherapy and 1 article contributing to HIV/AIDS pharmacotherapy. Of the 291 SIDP members surveyed, 134 (46%) and 56 (19%) participated in the selection of general ID-related articles and HIV/AIDS-related articles, respectively. The 11 highest-ranked papers (10 general ID-related articles, 1 HIV/AIDS-related article) are summarized here. CONCLUSION With the vast number of articles published each year, it is difficult to remain up-to-date on current, significant ID pharmacotherapy publications. This review of significant publications in 2014 may be helpful by lessening this burden.
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- Kady Phe, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Richard M. Cadle, Pharm.D., BCPS (AQ-ID), FASHP, is Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Residency Program Director, Pharmacy Practice (Postgraduate Year 1) and Infectious Disease (Postgraduate Year 2) Programs, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX. David J. Guervil, Pharm.D., is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston. Oscar E. Guzman, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care, Cardinal Health, Innovative Delivery Solutions, Houston. Ashley M. Lockwood, Pharm.D., is Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident, Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston. Katherine K. Perez, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Departments of Pharmacy and Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Assistant Clinical Member, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston. Nancy N. Vuong, Pharm.D., MBIOT, BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Samuel L. Aitken, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Division of Pharmacy, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Kady Phe, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Richard M. Cadle, Pharm.D., BCPS (AQ-ID), FASHP, is Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Residency Program Director, Pharmacy Practice (Postgraduate Year 1) and Infectious Disease (Postgraduate Year 2) Programs, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX. David J. Guervil, Pharm.D., is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston. Oscar E. Guzman, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care, Cardinal Health, Innovative Delivery Solutions, Houston. Ashley M. Lockwood, Pharm.D., is Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident, Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston. Katherine K. Perez, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Departments of Pharmacy and Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Assistant Clinical Member, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston. Nancy N. Vuong, Pharm.D., MBIOT, BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Samuel L. Aitken, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Division of Pharmacy, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Kady Phe, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Richard M. Cadle, Pharm.D., BCPS (AQ-ID), FASHP, is Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Residency Program Director, Pharmacy Practice (Postgraduate Year 1) and Infectious Disease (Postgraduate Year 2) Programs, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX. David J. Guervil, Pharm.D., is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston. Oscar E. Guzman, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care, Cardinal Health, Innovative Delivery Solutions, Houston. Ashley M. Lockwood, Pharm.D., is Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident, Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston. Katherine K. Perez, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Departments of Pharmacy and Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Assistant Clinical Member, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston. Nancy N. Vuong, Pharm.D., MBIOT, BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Samuel L. Aitken, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Division of Pharmacy, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Kady Phe, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Richard M. Cadle, Pharm.D., BCPS (AQ-ID), FASHP, is Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Residency Program Director, Pharmacy Practice (Postgraduate Year 1) and Infectious Disease (Postgraduate Year 2) Programs, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX. David J. Guervil, Pharm.D., is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston. Oscar E. Guzman, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care, Cardinal Health, Innovative Delivery Solutions, Houston. Ashley M. Lockwood, Pharm.D., is Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident, Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston. Katherine K. Perez, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Departments of Pharmacy and Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Assistant Clinical Member, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston. Nancy N. Vuong, Pharm.D., MBIOT, BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Samuel L. Aitken, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Division of Pharmacy, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Kady Phe, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Richard M. Cadle, Pharm.D., BCPS (AQ-ID), FASHP, is Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Residency Program Director, Pharmacy Practice (Postgraduate Year 1) and Infectious Disease (Postgraduate Year 2) Programs, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX. David J. Guervil, Pharm.D., is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston. Oscar E. Guzman, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care, Cardinal Health, Innovative Delivery Solutions, Houston. Ashley M. Lockwood, Pharm.D., is Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident, Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston. Katherine K. Perez, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Departments of Pharmacy and Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Assistant Clinical Member, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston. Nancy N. Vuong, Pharm.D., MBIOT, BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Samuel L. Aitken, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Division of Pharmacy, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Kady Phe, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Richard M. Cadle, Pharm.D., BCPS (AQ-ID), FASHP, is Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Residency Program Director, Pharmacy Practice (Postgraduate Year 1) and Infectious Disease (Postgraduate Year 2) Programs, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX. David J. Guervil, Pharm.D., is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston. Oscar E. Guzman, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care, Cardinal Health, Innovative Delivery Solutions, Houston. Ashley M. Lockwood, Pharm.D., is Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident, Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston. Katherine K. Perez, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Departments of Pharmacy and Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Assistant Clinical Member, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston. Nancy N. Vuong, Pharm.D., MBIOT, BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Samuel L. Aitken, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Division of Pharmacy, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Kady Phe, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Richard M. Cadle, Pharm.D., BCPS (AQ-ID), FASHP, is Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Residency Program Director, Pharmacy Practice (Postgraduate Year 1) and Infectious Disease (Postgraduate Year 2) Programs, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX. David J. Guervil, Pharm.D., is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston. Oscar E. Guzman, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care, Cardinal Health, Innovative Delivery Solutions, Houston. Ashley M. Lockwood, Pharm.D., is Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident, Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston. Katherine K. Perez, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Departments of Pharmacy and Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Assistant Clinical Member, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston. Nancy N. Vuong, Pharm.D., MBIOT, BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Samuel L. Aitken, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Division of Pharmacy, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Kady Phe, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Richard M. Cadle, Pharm.D., BCPS (AQ-ID), FASHP, is Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Residency Program Director, Pharmacy Practice (Postgraduate Year 1) and Infectious Disease (Postgraduate Year 2) Programs, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX. David J. Guervil, Pharm.D., is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston. Oscar E. Guzman, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care, Cardinal Health, Innovative Delivery Solutions, Houston. Ashley M. Lockwood, Pharm.D., is Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident, Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston. Katherine K. Perez, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Departments of Pharmacy and Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Assistant Clinical Member, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston. Nancy N. Vuong, Pharm.D., MBIOT, BCPS, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Samuel L. Aitken, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Division of Pharmacy, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
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Meropenem-RPX7009 Concentrations in Plasma, Epithelial Lining Fluid, and Alveolar Macrophages of Healthy Adult Subjects. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2015; 59:7232-9. [PMID: 26349830 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01713-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2015] [Accepted: 09/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The steady-state concentrations of meropenem and the β-lactamase inhibitor RPX7009 in plasma, epithelial lining fluid (ELF), and alveolar macrophage (AM) concentrations were obtained in 25 healthy, nonsmoking adult subjects. Subjects received a fixed combination of meropenem (2 g) and RPX7009 (2 g) administered every 8 h, as a 3-h intravenous infusion, for a total of three doses. A bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage were performed once in each subject at 1.5, 3.25, 4, 6, or 8 h after the start of the last infusion. Meropenem and RPX7009 achieved a similar time course and magnitude of concentrations in plasma and ELF. The mean pharmacokinetic parameters ± the standard deviations of meropenem and RPX7009 determined from serial plasma concentrations were as follows: Cmax = 58.2 ± 10.8 and 59.0 ± 8.4 μg/ml, Vss = 16.3 ± 2.6 and 17.6 ± 2.6 liters; CL = 11.1 ± 2.1 and 10.1 ± 1.9 liters/h, and t1/2 = 1.03 ± 0.15 and 1.27 ± 0.21 h, respectively. The intrapulmonary penetrations of meropenem and RPX7009 were ca. 63 and 53%, respectively, based on the area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 8 h (AUC0-8) values of ELF and total plasma concentrations. When unbound plasma concentrations were considered, ELF penetrations were 65 and 79% for meropenem and RPX7009, respectively. Meropenem concentrations in AMs were below the quantitative limit of detection, whereas median concentrations of RPX7009 in AMs ranged from 2.35 to 6.94 μg/ml. The results from the present study lend support to exploring a fixed combination of meropenem (2 g) and RPX7009 (2 g) for the treatment of lower respiratory tract infections caused by meropenem-resistant Gram-negative pathogens susceptible to the combination of meropenem-RPX7009.
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Xiao AJ, Miller BW, Huntington JA, Nicolau DP. Ceftolozane/tazobactam pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic-derived dose justification for phase 3 studies in patients with nosocomial pneumonia. J Clin Pharmacol 2015; 56:56-66. [PMID: 26096377 PMCID: PMC5049594 DOI: 10.1002/jcph.566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ceftolozane/tazobactam is an antipseudomonal antibacterial approved for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections (cUTIs) and complicated intra‐abdominal infections (cIAIs) and in phase 3 clinical development for treatment of nosocomial pneumonia. A population pharmacokinetic (PK) model with the plasma‐to‐epithelial lining fluid (ELF) kinetics of ceftolozane/tazobactam was used to justify dosing regimens for patients with nosocomial pneumonia in phase 3 studies. Monte Carlo simulations were performed to determine ceftolozane/tazobactam dosing regimens with a >90% probability of target attainment (PTA) for a range of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic targets at relevant minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for key pathogens in nosocomial pneumonia. With a plasma‐to‐ELF penetration ratio of approximately 50%, as observed from an ELF PK study, a doubling of the current dose regimens for different renal functions that are approved for cUTIs and cIAIs is needed to achieve >90% PTA for nosocomial pneumonia. For example, a 3‐g dose of ceftolozane/tazobactam for nosocomial pneumonia patients with normal renal function is needed to achieve a >90% PTA (actual 98%) for the 1‐log kill target against pathogens with an MIC of ≤8 mg/L in ELF, compared with the 1.5‐g dose approved for cIAIs and cUTIs.
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Kuti JL, Nicolau DP. Presence of infection influences the epithelial lining fluid penetration of oral levofloxacin in adult patients. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2015; 45:512-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2014.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2014] [Revised: 12/23/2014] [Accepted: 12/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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