J 2018

Influence of dose, gender, and cigarette smoking on clozapine plasma concentrations

MAYEROVÁ, Michaela, Libor USTOHAL, Jiří JARKOVSKÝ, Jan PIVNIČKA, Tomáš KAŠPÁREK et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Influence of dose, gender, and cigarette smoking on clozapine plasma concentrations

Authors

MAYEROVÁ, Michaela (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Libor USTOHAL (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jiří JARKOVSKÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan PIVNIČKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Tomáš KAŠPÁREK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Eva ČEŠKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, Auckland, Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2018, 1178-2021

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30215 Psychiatry

Country of publisher

New Zealand

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.228

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/18:00103968

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

UT WoS

000435877800001

Keywords in English

therapeutic drug monitoring; plasma levels; interindividual variability; schizophrenia; schizoaffective disorder

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 2/5/2019 14:02, Soňa Böhmová

Abstract

V originále

Introduction: Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of clozapine is a very useful method for verifying both the correct intake and the interindividual variability of its metabolism, thereby avoiding the risk of toxicity. The purposes of this paper were to discover how many patients using clozapine in common clinical practice have clozapine plasma concentration (PC) levels in the proposed reference range and to identify factors that influence clozapine PC levels. Methods: Our study included 100 inpatients (diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder) taking standard doses of clozapine (100-700 mg/day). Clozapine concentration was measured by high-performance liquid chromatography. Correlations between doses and PC levels and the influence of smoking and gender on clozapine PC levels were calculated. Results: A large number of the patients (67%) had PC levels outside the proposed reference range. The clozapine PC levels were influenced by dose, gender, and cigarette smoking. Conclusion: The correlations between dose, gender, and cigarette smoking and clozapine PC levels highlighted by our study overlap other research. It was surprising to find such a large number of patients with clozapine PC levels outside the therapeutic range. This result suggests the importance of clozapine TDM due to misunderstood inter-and/or intraindividual variability or misestimated partial therapeutic compliance.

Links

LQ1601, research and development project
Name: CEITEC 2020 (Acronym: CEITEC2020)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
NV15-31063A, research and development project
Name: Buněčné markery vedoucí ke specifické léčbě "na míru" schizofrenním pacientům