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ArticleEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging2013

Rapid blood clearance and lack of long-term renal toxicity of 177Lu-DOTATATE enables shortening of renoprotective amino acid infusion.

Raghava Kashyap, Price Jackson, Michael S Hofman, Peter Eu, Jean-Mathieu Beauregard, Diana Zannino, Rodney J Hicks

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Article in European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Raghava KashyapCentre for Cancer Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Andrews Place, Melbourne, 3002, Australia, kashyapkr@gmail.com.
Price Jackson
Michael S Hofman
Peter Eu
Jean-Mathieu Beauregard
Diana Zannino
Rodney J Hicks
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre · AUUniversité Laval · CAUniversity of Melbourne · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe aim of the study was to investigate the feasibility of shortening the recommended 4-h renoprotective amino acid infusion in patients receiving peptide receptor chemoradionuclide therapy (PRCRT) using radiosensitizing 5-fluorouracil. We evaluated the clearance of radiopeptide from the blood, long-term nephrotoxicity in patients undergoing PRCRT with the conventional 4-h amino acid infusion and renal uptake in patients receiving an abbreviated infusion.

methodsThe whole-blood clearance of (177)Lu-DOTA-octreotate (LuTate) was measured in 13 patients receiving PRCRT. A retrospective analysis of short-term and long-term changes in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in 96 consecutive patients receiving a 4-h infusion was performed. Renal LuTate retention estimated using quantitative SPECT/CT in 22 cycles delivered with a 2.5-h amino acid infusion was compared with that in 72 cycles with the 4-h infusion.

resultsLuTate demonstrated biexponential blood clearance with an initial clearance half-time of 21 min. Approximately 88 % of blood activity was cleared within 2 h. With the 4-h protocol, there was no significant change in GFR (1.2 ml/min mean increase from baseline; 95 % CI -6.9 to 4.4 ml/min) and no grade 3 or 4 nephrotoxicity at the end of induction PRCRT. The long-term decline in GFR after a median follow up of 22 months was 2.2 ml/min per year. There was no significant difference in the renal LuTate retention measured in patients receiving a 2.5-h amino acid infusion compared to those who had a 4-h infusion.

conclusionThe greatest renal exposure to circulating radiopeptide occurs in the first 1 - 2 h after injection. This, combined with the safety of LuTate PRCRT, allows consideration of an abbreviated amino acid infusion, increasing patient convenience and reducing human resource allocation.

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AdultAgedAmino AcidsBiological TransportChemoradiotherapyCohort StudiesCytoprotectionFeasibility StudiesFemaleHumansKidneyMaleMiddle AgedOctreotideOrganometallic CompoundsReceptors, PeptideAmino Acidslutetium Lu 177 dotatateOctreotideOrganometallic CompoundsReceptors, Peptide

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