ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2014
Inflammation is associated with voriconazole trough concentrations.
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- Pharmacokinetics in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis: A Systematic Review of Data Published Between 1999 and 2019.Clinical pharmacokinetics · 2020Pooled it
- Voriconazole therapeutic drug monitoring: results of a prematurely discontinued randomized multicenter trial.Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society · 2015Trial
- Inflammation-driven variability in drug metabolism: Insights from voriconazole treatment of HSCT recipients.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2026Article
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- Comparison of an HPLC-UV system (LM1010) and UPLC-MS/MS for plasma voriconazole measurement in routine clinical practice.Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences · 2026Article
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- Repeated voriconazole therapeutic drug monitoring in hospitalised patients: a real-world cohort study of out-of-range exposure and concentration response to dose adjustment.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
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- Therapeutic drug monitoring of voriconazole and the impact of inflammation on plasma trough concentrations in children.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Whole Body Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Model to Explain A Patient With Drug-Drug Interaction Between Voriconazole and Flucloxacillin.European journal of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics · 2024Article
- Association of procalcitonin with voriconazole concentrations: a retrospective cohort study.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
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Abstract
Voriconazole concentrations display a large variability, which cannot completely be explained by known factors. Inflammation may be a contributing factor, as inflammatory stimuli can change the activities and expression levels of cytochrome P450 isoenzymes. We explored the correlation between inflammation, reflected by C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations, and voriconazole trough concentrations. A retrospective chart review of patients with at least one steady-state voriconazole trough concentration and a CRP concentration measured on the same day was performed. A total of 128 patients were included. A significantly (P < 0.001) higher voriconazole trough concentration was observed in patients with severe inflammation (6.2 mg/liter; interquartile range [IQR], 3.4 to 8.7 mg/liter; n = 20) than in patients with moderate inflammation (3.4 mg/liter; IQR, 1.6 to 5.4 mg/liter; n = 60) and in patients with no to mild inflammation (1.6 mg/liter; IQR, 0.8 to 3.0 mg/liter; n = 48). The patients in all three groups received similar voriconazole doses based on mg/kg body weight (P = 0.368). Linear regression analyses, both unadjusted and adjusted for covariates of gender, age, dose, route of administration, liver enzymes, and interacting coadministered medications, showed a significant association between voriconazole and CRP concentration (P < 0.001). For every 1-mg/liter increase in the CRP concentration, the voriconazole trough concentration increased by 0.015 mg/liter (unadjusted 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.011 to 0.020 mg/liter; adjusted 95% CI, 0.011 to 0.019 mg/liter). Inflammation, reflected by the C-reactive protein concentration, is associated with voriconazole trough concentrations. Further research is necessary to assess if taking the inflammatory status of a patient into account is helpful in therapeutic drug monitoring of voriconazole to maintain concentrations in the therapeutic window, thereby possibly preventing suboptimal treatment or adverse events.
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