Dried Blood Spot Sampling to Assess Rifampicin Exposure and Treatment Outcomes among Native and Non-Native Tuberculosis Patients in Paraguay: An Exploratory Study.
Samiksha GhimireGladys MolinasArturo BattagliaNilza MartinezLuis Gómez PacielloSarita AguirreJan Willem C AlffenaarMarieke G G SturkenboomCecile Magis-EscurraPublished in: Pharmaceutics (2023)
The aim of this study was to evaluate the difference in drug exposure of rifampicin in native versus non-native Paraguayan populations using dried blood spots (DBS) samples collected utilizing a limited sampling strategy. This was a prospective pharmacokinetic study that enrolled hospitalized tuberculosis (TB) patients from both native and non-native populations receiving oral rifampicin 10 mg/kg once-daily dosing. Steady-state DBS samples were collected at 2, 4, and 6 h after intake of rifampicin. The area under the time concentration curve 0-24 h (AUC 0-24 ) was calculated using a Bayesian population PK model. Rifampicin AUC 0-24 < 38.7 mg*h/L was considered as low. The probability of target attainment (PTA) was calculated using AUC 0-24 /MIC > 271 as a target and estimated MIC values of 0.125 and 0.25 mg/L. In total, 50 patients were included. Native patients ( n = 30) showed comparable drug exposure to the non-natives ( n = 20), median AUC 0-24 24.7 (17.1-29.5 IQR) and 21.6 (15.0-35.4 IQR) mg*h/L ( p = 0.66), respectively. Among total patients, only 16% ( n = 8) had a rifampicin AUC 0-24 > 38.7 mg*h/L. Furthermore, PTA analysis showed that only 12 (24%) of the patients met a target AUC 0-24 /MIC ≥ 271, assuming an MIC of 0.125 mg/L, which plummeted to 0% at a wild-type MIC of 0.25 mg/L. We successfully used DBS and limited sampling for the AUC 0-24 estimation of rifampicin. Currently, our group, the EUSAT-RCS consortium, is preparing a prospective multinational, multicenter phase IIb clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of high-dose rifampicin (35 mg/kg) in adult subjects using the DBS technique for AUC 0-24 estimation.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- ejection fraction
- clinical trial
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- high dose
- peritoneal dialysis
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- randomized controlled trial
- emergency department
- low dose
- physical activity
- wild type
- open label
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv aids
- body mass index
- adverse drug