Population pharmacokinetics of vancomycin and AUC-guided dosing in Chinese neonates and young infants

Y Chen, D Wu, M Dong, Y Zhu, J Lu, X Li… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Objectives To develop a population pharmacokinetic (PK) model for vancomycin in Chinese
neonates and infants less than 2 months of age (young infants) with a wide gestational age …

Factors impacting unbound vancomycin concentrations in neonates and young infants

A Smits, S Pauwels, M Oyaert, N Peersman… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Vancomycin pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) data in neonates are based
on total concentrations. However, only unbound vancomycin is pharmacologically active …

Evaluating the relationship between vancomycin trough concentration and 24-hour area under the concentration-time curve in neonates

SH Tseng, CP Lim, Q Chen, CC Tang… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates, especially those
involving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Guidelines by the Infectious …

Population pharmacokinetics of valproic acid in epileptic children: Effects of clinical and genetic factors

S Xu, Y Chen, M Zhao, Y Guo, Z Wang… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Valproic acid (VPA) is a first-line anti-epileptic drug that is used in the treatment of
generalized and partial seizures. Gene variants had been proved to influence the …

Population pharmacokinetics of the antimalarial amodiaquine: a pooled analysis to optimize dosing

AM Ali, MA Penny, TA Smith, L Workman… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Amodiaquine plus artesunate is the recommended antimalarial treatment in many countries
where malaria is endemic. However, pediatric doses are largely based on a linear …

Population pharmacokinetics of vancomycin in Chinese ICU neonates: initial dosage recommendations

Z Li, Y Liu, Z Jiao, G Qiu, J Huang, Y Xiao… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The main goal of our study was to characterize the population pharmacokinetics of
vancomycin in critically ill Chinese neonates to develop a pharmacokinetic model and …

Influences of renal function descriptors on population pharmacokinetic modeling of vancomycin in Chinese adult patients

X Ji, S Ji, X He, X Zhu, R Chen, W Lu - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2018 - nature.com
Vancomycin, a glycopeptide antibiotic for the treatment of grampositive infections, is mainly
eliminated via glomerular filtration. Thus, its therapeutic effects are affected predominantly …

Investigation of the age dependency of vancomycin clearance by population pharmacokinetic modeling

M Usman, M Fobker, G Hempel - International journal of …, 2018 - search.proquest.com
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of age and other possible
covariates on vancomycin clearance in order to define a possible cut off value of age for …

Semi-mechanistic model for predicting the dosing rate in children and neonates for drugs mainly eliminated by cytochrome metabolism

L Cerruti, N Bleyzac, M Tod - Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 2018 - Springer
Background and Objective A simple approach is proposed to predict drug clearance in
children when no paediatric data are available for drugs metabolised by cytochromes …

Population pharmacokinetic model of levetiracetam in Korean neonates with seizures

YS Jung, SM Lee, MS Park… - International Journal of …, 2018 - search.proquest.com
Objective: This study was conducted to develop a population pharmacokinetic (PK) model of
levetiracetam in Korean neonates with seizures. Materials and methods: Data were obtained …