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American Society for Microbiology, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 6(59), p. 3090-3097, 2015

DOI: 10.1128/aac.00032-15

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Achieving Target Voriconazole Concentrations More Accurately in Children and Adolescents

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Despite the documented benefit of voriconazole therapeutic drug monitoring, nonlinear pharmacokinetics make the timing of steady-state trough sampling and appropriate dose adjustments unpredictable by conventional methods. We developed a nonparametric population model with data from 141 previously richly sampled children and adults. We then used it in our multiple-model Bayesian adaptive control algorithm to predict measured concentrations and doses in a separate cohort of 33 pediatric patients aged 8 months to 17 years who were receiving voriconazole and enrolled in a pharmacokinetic study. Using all available samples to estimate the individual Bayesian posterior parameter values, the median percent prediction bias relative to a measured target trough concentration in the patients was 1.1% (interquartile range, −17.1 to 10%). Compared to the actual dose that resulted in the target concentration, the percent bias of the predicted dose was −0.7% (interquartile range, −7 to 20%). Using only trough concentrations to generate the Bayesian posterior parameter values, the target bias was 6.4% (interquartile range, −1.4 to 14.7%; P = 0.16 versus the full posterior parameter value) and the dose bias was −6.7% (interquartile range, −18.7 to 2.4%; P = 0.15). Use of a sample collected at an optimal time of 4 h after a dose, in addition to the trough concentration, resulted in a nonsignificantly improved target bias of 3.8% (interquartile range, −13.1 to 18%; P = 0.32) and a dose bias of −3.5% (interquartile range, −18 to 14%; P = 0.33). With the nonparametric population model and trough concentrations, our control algorithm can accurately manage voriconazole therapy in children independently of steady-state conditions, and it is generalizable to any drug with a nonparametric pharmacokinetic model. (This study has been registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under registration no. NCT01976078.)