Pharmacokinetics and monitoring of cyclosporine following orthotopic liver transplantation.
Pharmacokinetics and monitoring of cyclosporine following orthotopic liver transplantation.
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原位肝移植后环孢素的药代动力学和监测。
DOI:
10.1055/s-2008-1040633
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Ptachcinski,RJ
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文献类型:
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作者:
Venkataramanan,R;Burckhart,GJ;Ptachcinski,RJ
Cyclosporine is a novel immunosuppressant derived from two strains of fungi, Cylindrocarpon lucidum and Tolypocladium inflatum~ ams.~ The immunosuppressive activity of this compound was first reported in 1976,~ and clinical trials were initiated in 1978. Since its first clinical trial, cyclosporine has proved to be a potent immunosuppressant without myelotoxicity. This has led to the extensive use of cyclosporine as an immunosuppressant and has resulted in improved success of organ transplantation. There is, however, a significant interpatient variability in response to cyclosporine. Its unique structural properties and its variable pharmacokinetic profile may contribute to such observations. The Food and Drug Administration approved this drug for use in certain organ transplant patients, with a recommendation that blood or plasma concentrations of cyclosporine should be monitored routinely in these patients. An optimal therapeutic monitoring program should incorporate an analysis of blood or plasma concentration of cyclosporine, which should be interpreted with other clinical, biochemical, and immunologic measurements. The objective of this article is to provide a summary of the pharmacokinetics and therapeutic monitoring of cyclosporine in orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) patients.