scholarly journals Pharmacokinetics of Indinavir and Ritonavir Administered at 667 and 100 Milligrams, Respectively, Every 12 Hours Compared with Indinavir Administered at 800 Milligrams Every 8 Hours in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 4200-4208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank S. Rhame ◽  
Sandy L. Rawlins ◽  
Richard A. Petruschke ◽  
Tara A. Erb ◽  
Gregory A. Winchell ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients on nucleoside or nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors with HIV RNA at <1,000 copies/ml were randomized in an open-label study to administration of combined indinavir/ritonavir (IDV/RTV) at 667/100 mg every 12 h (q12h) or IDV alone at 800 mg q8h to determine the regimens' pharmacokinetics. On day 14, plasma IDV and RTV levels were determined over 24 h. Noncompartmental pharmacokinetics (minimum concentration of drug in serum [C min], area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 h [AUC0-24], and maximum concentration of drug in serum [C max]) were expressed as geometric mean values with 90% confidence intervals (CI). The primary hypothesis was that the lower bound of the protocol-specified 90% CI for the geometric mean C min ratio of the combination compared to IDV alone regimen would be ≥2. Twenty-seven patients were enrolled, and 24 (15 male; average age, 42 years) completed the study. The C min, AUC0-24, and C max for IDV/RTV compared to IDV alone were 1,511 versus 250 nM, 119,557 versus 77,034 nM · h, and 10,428 versus 10,407 nM, respectively. Corresponding relationships for IDV/RTV compared to IDV alone were a 6.0-fold increase in C min (90% CI, 4.0, 9.3), an increase in AUC0-24 (1.5-fold, 90% CI, 1.2, 2.0), and no increase in C max. Adverse events were similar and generally mild, with no cases of nephrolithiasis. The geometric mean ratio of IDV C min for IDV/RTV compared to IDV was at least 2 by a lower bound of the 90% CI, satisfying the primary hypothesis. The C max was not increased, suggesting an IDV/RTV 667/100-mg toxicity profile may be similar to that of unboosted IDV.

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1694-1699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Shelton ◽  
Ross G. Hewitt ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Andrew Della-Coletta ◽  
Steven Cox ◽  
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ABSTRACT To evaluate the pharmacokinetic effect of adding delavirdine mesylate to the antiretroviral regimens of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients stabilized on a full dosage of ritonavir (600 mg every 12 h), 12 HIV-1-infected subjects had delavirdine mesylate (400 mg every 8 h) added to their current antiretroviral regimens for 21 days. Ritonavir pharmacokinetics were evaluated before (day 7) and after (day 28) the addition of delavirdine, and delavirdine pharmacokinetics were evaluated on day 28. The mean values (± standard deviations) for the maximum concentration in serum (C max) of ritonavir, the area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 12 h (AUC0-12), and the minimum concentration in serum (C min) of ritonavir before the addition of delavirdine were 14.8 ± 6.7 μM, 94 ± 36 μM · h, and 3.6 ± 2.1 μM, respectively. These same parameters were increased to 24.6 ± 13.9 μM, 154 ± 83 μM · h, and 6.52 ± 4.85 μM, respectively, after the addition of delavirdine (P is <0.05 for all comparisons). Delavirdine pharmacokinetic parameters in the presence of ritonavir included a C max of 23 ± 16 μM, an AUC0-8 of 114 ± 75 μM · h, and a C min of 9.1 ± 7.5 μM. Therefore, delavirdine increases systemic exposure to ritonavir by 50 to 80% when the drugs are coadministered.


2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 1904-1907 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Bergshoeff ◽  
P. L. A. Fraaij ◽  
A. M. C. van Rossum ◽  
G. Verweel ◽  
L. H. Wynne ◽  
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ABSTRACT So far, no pediatric doses for indinavir combined with ritonavir have been defined. This study evaluated the pharmacokinetics of 400 mg of indinavir/m2 combined with 125 mg of ritonavir/m2 every 12 h (q12h) in 14 human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected children. The area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 h and the minimum concentration of drug in serum for indinavir were similar to those for 800 mg of indinavir-100 mg of ritonavir q12h in adults, while the maximum concentration of drug in serum was slightly decreased, with geometric mean ratios (90% confidence intervals in parentheses) of 1.1 (0.87 to 1.3), 0.96 (0.60 to 1.5), and 0.80 (0.68 to 0.94), respectively.


2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 4328-4331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert DiCenzo ◽  
Derick Peterson ◽  
Kim Cruttenden ◽  
Gene Morse ◽  
Garret Riggs ◽  
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ABSTRACT Valproic acid (VPA) has the potential to benefit patients suffering from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated cognitive impairment. The purpose of this study was to determine if VPA affects the plasma concentration of efavirenz (EFV) or lopinavir. HIV type 1 (HIV-1)-infected patients receiving EFV or lopinavir-ritonavir (LPV/r) had 9 or 10 blood samples drawn over 8 to 24 h of a dosing interval at steady state before and after receiving 250 mg of VPA twice daily for 7 days. VPA blood samples drawn before (C 0) and 8 h after the morning dose (8 h) were compared to blood samples from a group of HIV-1-infected subjects who were taking either combined nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors alone or had discontinued antiretroviral therapy. Pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated by noncompartmental analysis, and tests of bioequivalence were based on 90% confidence intervals (CIs) for ratios or differences. The geometric mean ratio (GMR) (90% CI) of the areas under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 h (AUC0-24s) of EFV (n = 11) with and without VPA was 1.00 (0.85, 1.17). The GMR (90% CI) of the AUC0-8s of LPV (n = 8) with and without VPA was 1.38 (0.98, 1.94). The differences (90% CI) in mean C 0 and 8-h VPA concentrations versus the control (n = 11) were −1.0 (−9.4, 7.4) μg/ml and −2.1 (−11.1, 6.9) μg/ml for EFV (n = 10) and −5.0 (−13.2, 3.3) μg/ml and −6.7 (−17.6, 4.2) μg/ml for LPV/r (n = 11), respectively. EFV administration alone is bioequivalent to EFV and VPA coadministration. LPV concentrations tended to be higher when the drug was combined with VPA. Results of VPA comparisons fail to raise concern that coadministration with EFV or LPV/r will significantly influence trough concentrations of VPA.


2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 2752-2755 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Hanley ◽  
Larissa A. Wenning ◽  
Allison Moreau ◽  
James T. Kost ◽  
Eric Mangin ◽  
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ABSTRACT Raltegravir (RAL) is a novel and potent human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integrase inhibitor that is predominantly metabolized via glucuronidation. The protease inhibitor combination tipranavir (TPV) at 500 mg and ritonavir (RTV) at 200 mg (TPV-RTV) has inhibitory and inductive effects on metabolic enzymes, which includes the potential to induce glucuronosyltransferase. Because RAL may be coadministered with TPV-RTV, there is the potential for the induction of RAL metabolism. Consequently, we assessed the effect of TPV-RTV on the pharmacokinetics of RAL and the safety and tolerability of this combination. Eighteen healthy adults were enrolled in this open-label study. The participants received RAL at 400 mg twice daily for 4 days (period 1) and TPV-RTV twice daily for 7 days (period 2), followed immediately by 400 mg RAL with TPV-RTV twice daily for 4 days (period 3). Under steady-state conditions, the RAL concentration at 12 h (C 12) was decreased when RAL was administered with TPV-RTV (geometric mean ratio [GMR], 0.45; 90% confidence interval [CI] 0.31, 0.66; P = 0.0021); however, the area under the concentration-time curve from time zero to 12 h (GMR, 0.76; 90% CI, 0.49, 1.19; P = 0.2997) and the maximum concentration in serum (GMR, 0.82; 90% CI, 0.46, 1.46; P = 0.5506) were not substantially affected. There were no serious adverse experiences or discontinuations due to study drug-related adverse experiences, and RAL coadministered with TPV-RTV was generally well tolerated. Although the RAL C 12 was decreased with TPV-RTV in this study, favorable efficacy data collected in phase III studies substantiate that TPV-RTV may be coadministered with RAL without dose adjustment.


2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1532-1538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Moyle ◽  
Marta Boffito ◽  
Carl Fletcher ◽  
Chris Higgs ◽  
Phillip E. Hay ◽  
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ABSTRACT Abacavir (ABC) is administered either at 600 mg once daily (ABC 600 mg QD) or 300 mg twice daily (ABC 300 mg BID) in anti-human immunodeficiency virus (anti-HIV) combination therapy. Although ABC plasma pharmacokinetics following each regimen has been well defined, no study has directly compared the regimens with respect to pharmacokinetics of ABC's active intracellular anabolite, carbovir-triphosphate (CBV-TP). In an open-label, two-period, crossover study, 34 HIV-infected male and female subjects stabilized on antiretroviral regimens containing either ABC 600 mg QD or ABC 300 mg BID received their usual doses on days −1 and 1 and then switched regimens for days 2 to 11. Serial blood samples collected on days 1 and 11 were assayed for plasma ABC and intracellular CBV-TP concentrations using validated high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry methods. Pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated using noncompartmental methods. Analysis of variance with a mixed-effect model was performed for treatment and gender comparisons. In 27 evaluable subjects, the regimens provided bioequivalent ABC daily areas under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 h (AUC0-24) and comparable CBV-TP concentrations at the end of the dosing interval (C τ). As expected, ABC QD resulted in 109% higher ABC maximum concentrations of drug in plasma (C max) than did ABC BID. ABC QD also resulted in 32% higher CBV-TP AUC0-24 and 99% higher CBV-TP C max than did ABC BID. Females had a 38% higher weight-adjusted ABC AUC0-24 and 81% higher weight-adjusted CBV-TP AUC0-24 than did males. Virologic suppression was maintained during regimen switch, and no tolerability differences between regimens were observed. In conclusion, this study showed that ABC 600 mg QD and ABC 300 mg BID regimens led to similar intracellular CBV-TP C τ values, thus providing pharmacokinetic support for the interchangeability of these two regimens. Women had higher intracellular CBV-TP exposure than did men.


2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 3907-3916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Shulman ◽  
Andrew Zolopa ◽  
Diane Havlir ◽  
Ann Hsu ◽  
Cheryl Renz ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Depending on the degree of underlying resistance present, optimization of the pharmacokinetics of protease inhibitors may result in improved virologic suppression. Thirty-seven human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected subjects who had chronic detectable viremia and who were receiving 800 mg of indinavir three times a day (TID) were switched to 400 mg of indinavir BID with 400 mg of ritonavir two times a day (BID) for 48 weeks. Full pharmacokinetic evaluations were obtained for 12 subjects before the switch and 3 weeks after the switch. Combination therapy increased the indinavir predose concentrations in plasma by 6.47-fold, increased the minimum concentration in serum by 3.41-fold, and reduced the maximum concentration in serum by 57% without significantly changing the area under the plasma concentration-time curve at 24 h. At week 3, 58% (21 of 36) of the subjects for whom postbaseline measurements were available achieved a viral load in plasma of <50 copies/ml or a reduction from the baseline load of ≥0.5 log10 copies/ml. Of these subjects, 82% (14 of 17) whose viruses had three or fewer protease inhibitor mutations and 88% (14 of 16) whose viruses had an indinavir virtual phenotypic susceptibility test of more than sixfold less than that for the baseline isolate were considered virologic responders. The indinavir virtual inhibitory quotient, which is a function of baseline indinavir phenotypic resistance (estimated by virtual phenotype) and the indinavir predose concentration in plasma achieved with indinavir-ritonavir combination therapy, was the best predictor of a viral load reduction. Sixteen subjects discontinued the study by week 48 due to adverse events, predominantly related to hyperlipidemia. Pharmacokinetic intensification of indinavir-based therapy with ritonavir reduced the viral loads in subjects but added toxicity. The virtual inhibitory quotient, which incorporates both baseline viral resistance and the level of drug exposure in plasma, was superior to either baseline resistance or drug exposure alone in predicting the virologic response.


2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 3558-3561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick F. Smith ◽  
Gregory K. Robbins ◽  
Robert W. Shafer ◽  
Hulin Wu ◽  
Song Yu ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Pharmacokinetic studies were conducted with human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients receiving efavirenz, nelfinavir, or both agents at weeks 4 and 32. Reductions of 25% and 45% were observed in the mean nelfinavir area under the concentration-time curve and minimum concentration of the drug in serum, and there was a 31% more rapid half-life for patients receiving both drugs compared to patients receiving nelfinavir alone. There were no significant differences in efavirenz pharmacokinetics.


2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurene H. Wang ◽  
Andrew A. Wiznia ◽  
Mobeen H. Rathore ◽  
Gregory E. Chittick ◽  
Saroj S. Bakshi ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Emtricitabine (FTC; Emtriva), a potent deoxycytidine nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, has recently been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In adults, FTC has demonstrated linear kinetics over a wide dose range, and FTC 200 mg once a day (QD) is the recommended therapeutic dose. A phase I open-label trial was conducted in children to identify an FTC dosing regimen that would provide comparable plasma exposure to that observed in adults at 200 mg QD. Two single oral doses of FTC (60 and 120 mg/m2, up to a maximum of 200 mg, in solutions) were evaluated in HIV-infected children aged <18 years old. Children ≥6 years old also received a third dose of ∼120 mg/m2 in capsules. A total of 25 children (two <2 years old, eight 2 to 5 years old, eight 6 to 12 years old, and seven 13 to 17 years old) received at least two doses of FTC. Single escalating oral doses of FTC were well tolerated and produced dose-proportional plasma drug concentrations in children. The FTC pharmacokinetics was comparable between adults and children 22 months to 17 years of age. The capsule formulation provided ∼20% higher plasma FTC exposure than the solution formulation. Using plasma area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) data at the 120-mg/m2 dose, it is projected (based on dose proportionality) that a 6-mg/kg dose (up to a maximum of 200 mg) of FTC would produce plasma AUCs in children comparable to those in adults given a 200-mg dose (i.e., median of ∼10 h·μg/ml). This pediatric FTC dose is being evaluated in long-term phase II therapeutic trials in HIV-infected children.


2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 4256-4262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Ribera ◽  
Rosa M. Lopez ◽  
Marjorie Diaz ◽  
Leonor Pou ◽  
Lidia Ruiz ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Management of treatment-experienced human immunodeficiency virus patients has become complex, and therapy may need to include two protease inhibitors at therapeutic doses. The objective of this study was to characterize the pharmacokinetics in serum of saquinavir (1,000 mg twice daily [b.i.d.]), lopinavir (400 mg b.i.d.), and ritonavir (100 mg b.i.d.) in a multidrug rescue therapy study and to investigate whether steady-state pharmacokinetics of lopinavir-ritonavir are affected by coadministration of saquinavir. Forty patients were included (25 given ritonavir, lopinavir, and saquinavir and 15 given ritonavir and lopinavir). The median pharmacokinetic parameters of lopinavir were as follows: area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 12 h (AUC0-12), 85.1 μg/ml · h; maximum concentration of drug in serum (C max), 10.0 μg/ml; trough concentration of drug in serum (C trough), 7.3 μg/ml; and minimum concentration of drug in serum (C min), 5.5 μg/ml. Lopinavir concentrations were similar in patients with and without saquinavir. The median pharmacokinetic parameters for saquinavir were as follows: AUC0-12, 22.9 μg/ml · h; C max, 2.9 μg/ml; C trough, 1.6 μg/ml; and C min, 1.4 μg/ml. There was a strong linear correlation between lopinavir and ritonavir and between saquinavir and ritonavir concentrations in plasma. The correlation between lopinavir and saquinavir levels was weaker. We found higher saquinavir concentrations in women than in men, with no difference in lopinavir levels. Only patients with very high body weight presented lopinavir and saquinavir concentrations lower than the overall group. Ritonavir has a double-boosting function for both lopinavir and saquinavir, and in terms of pharmacokinetics, the drug doses selected seemed appropriate for combining these agents in a dual protease inhibitor-based antiretroviral regimen for patients with several prior virologic failures.


2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 3613-3615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauriane Goldwirt ◽  
Joséphine Braun ◽  
Nathalie de Castro ◽  
Isabelle Charreau ◽  
Aurélie Barrail-Tran ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTWe compared tipranavir and darunavir concentrations measured at steady state in 20 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients enrolled in the EASIER-ANRS 138 clinical trial who switched from enfuvirtide to raltegravir while maintaining the same background regimen. The geometric mean ratios of the observed predose concentration (Ctrough), maximum concentration of drug observed in plasma (Cmax), and area under the plasma concentration-time curve (AUC) before (day 0) and after (week 24) the switch were 0.49, 0.76, and 0.67 and 0.82, 0.68, and 0.64 for tipranavir and darunavir, respectively. The virologic consequences of these drug interactions have yet to be determined.


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