Nevirapine in the treatment of HIV
Nevirapine in the treatment of HIV
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DOI:
10.1586/14787210.2.3.367
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发表时间:
2004-06
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
A. Milinkovic;E. Martinez
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作者:
A. Milinkovic;E. Martinez
Nevirapine (Viramune®, Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd) is the first marketed non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor. As with any antiretroviral drug, nevirapine should always be used as part of a fully suppressive regimen. Clinical studies have shown that nevirapine-containing regimens may accomplish durable virological and immunological responses in approximately half of all antiretroviral-naive patients. It can also be successfully used as a component of salvage therapies and as a part of a strategy to simplify protease inhibitor-containing regimens. Nevirapine has a beneficial effect on the lipid profile in both treatment-naive and -experienced patients. Nevirapine also has an important role in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV. It is usually well-tolerated with rash and liver toxicity being the most frequently reported adverse events. Nevirapine interacts with cytochrome P450 enzymes both as a substrate and as an inducer. For this reason, therapeutic drug monitoring should be recommended whenever nevirapine is used with protease inhibitors, methadone (Methadose®, Rosemont Pharmaceuticals Ltd), oral contraceptives, rifampicin (Rifadin®, Aventis Pharma) and other potentially interacting drugs. Nevirapine-resistant mutations are common to the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor family and they include K103N, V106A, Y181C, Y188C and G190A. A better understanding of the nevirapine profile will certainly contribute to ensuring that its clinical application becomes more effective and beneficial.