Pharmacokinetics of chewed vs. swallowed raltegravir in a patient with AIDS and MAI infection: some new conflicting data

Background While HIV, AIDS and atypical Mycobacterium infections are closely linked, the use of Integrase-Inhibitor based cART, notably raltegravir-based regimens is more widespread. RAL should be double-dosed to 800 mg semi-daily in situation of rifampicin co-medication, because RAL is more rapidly metabolized due to rifampicin-induced Uridine-5’-diphosph- gluronosyl-transferase (UGT1A1). Recently, it was speculated that chewed RAL might lead to increased absorption, which might compensate the inductive effect of rifampicin-rapid metabolized RAL, as part of cost-saving effects in countries with high-tuberculosis prevalence and less economic power. Methods We report measurement of raltegravir pharmacokinetics in a 34-year AIDS-patient suffering from disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection with necessity of parenteral rifampicin treatment. RAL levels were measured with HPLC (internal standard: carbamazepine, LLQ 11 ng/ml, validation with Valistat 2.0 program (Arvecon, Germany)). For statistical analysis, a two-sided Wilcoxon signed rank test for paired samples was used. Results High intra-personal variability in raltegravir serum levels was seen. Comparable $ C_{max} $ concentrations were found for 800 mg chewed and swallowed RAL, as well as for 400 mg chewed and swallowed RAL. While $ C_{max} $ seems to be more dependent from overall RAL dosing than from swallowed or chewed tablets, increased $ AUC_{12} $ is clearly linked to higher RAL dosages per administration. Anyway, chewed raltegravir showed a rapid decrease in serum levels. Conclusions We found no evidence that chewed 400 mg semi-daily raltegravir in rifampicin co-medication leads to optimized pharmacokinetics. There is need for more data from randomized trials for further recommendations..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

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AIDS research and therapy - 12(2015), 1 vom: 17. Jan.

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Englisch

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Spinner, Christoph D [VerfasserIn]
Wille, Florian [VerfasserIn]
Schwerdtfeger, Christiane [VerfasserIn]
Thies, Philipp [VerfasserIn]
Tanase, Ursula [VerfasserIn]
Von Figura, Guido [VerfasserIn]
Schmid, Roland M [VerfasserIn]
Heinz, Werner J [VerfasserIn]
Klinker, Hartwig Hf [VerfasserIn]

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Chewed
HIV
Mycobacterium avium
Pharmacokinetic
Raltegravir

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© Spinner et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015

doi:

10.1186/s12981-014-0041-8

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SPR029203619