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ArticleBiomedicines2017

Evaluation of Posaconazole Pharmacokinetics in Adult Patients with Invasive Fungal Infection.

Sarah Allegra, Giovanna Fatiguso, Silvia De Francia, Fabio Favata, Elisa Pirro, Chiara Carcieri, Amedeo De Nicolò, Jessica Cusato, Giovanni Di Perri, Antonio D'Avolio

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Article in Biomedicines, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Updated antimicrobial dosing recommendations for obese patients.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2024
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  3. A Review of Population Pharmacokinetic Models of Posaconazole.Drug design, development and therapy · 2022
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  8. Intravenous and Oral Posaconazole Pharmacokinetics in a Five-Year-Old With Mucor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah AllegraDepartment of Medical Sciences, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Torino, ASL Città di Torino, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Corso Svizzera 164, 10149 Turin, Italy. sarah.allegra@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-4933-0011
Giovanna FatigusoDepartment of Medical Sciences, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Torino, ASL Città di Torino, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Corso Svizzera 164, 10149 Turin, Italy. giofatiguso@gmail.com.
Silvia De FranciaDepartment of Biological and Clinical Sciences, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, 10043 Orbassano (TO), Italy. silvia.defrancia@unito.it.
Fabio FavataDepartment of Medical Sciences, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Torino, ASL Città di Torino, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Corso Svizzera 164, 10149 Turin, Italy. fabio_favata@libero.it.
Elisa PirroDepartment of Biological and Clinical Sciences, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, 10043 Orbassano (TO), Italy. elisa.pirro@unito.it.
Chiara CarcieriDepartment of Medical Sciences, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Torino, ASL Città di Torino, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Corso Svizzera 164, 10149 Turin, Italy. chiaracarcieri@gmail.com.
Amedeo De NicolòDepartment of Medical Sciences, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Torino, ASL Città di Torino, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Corso Svizzera 164, 10149 Turin, Italy. amedeo.denicolo@unito.it.
Jessica CusatoDepartment of Medical Sciences, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Torino, ASL Città di Torino, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Corso Svizzera 164, 10149 Turin, Italy. jessica.cusato@unito.it.
Giovanni Di PerriDepartment of Medical Sciences, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Torino, ASL Città di Torino, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Corso Svizzera 164, 10149 Turin, Italy. giovanni.diperri@unito.it.
Antonio D'AvolioDepartment of Medical Sciences, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Torino, ASL Città di Torino, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Corso Svizzera 164, 10149 Turin, Italy. antonio.davolio@unito.it.ORCID 0000-0002-1321-4126
Ospedale Amedeo di Savoia · ITOspedale San Luigi Gonzaga · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mortality and morbidity due to invasive fungal infections have increased over the years. Posaconazole is a second-generation triazole agent with an extended spectrum of activity, which shows a high interindividual variability in its plasma levels, rendering dosing in many patients inconsistent or inadequate. Hence, posaconazole therapeutic drug monitoring, which is easily available in clinical practice, may improve treatment success and safety. The aim of the study was to describe posaconazole pharmacokinetics, and to evaluate the utility of therapeutic drug monitoring for therapy and prophylaxis in a cohort of adult patients. A fully validated chromatographic method was used to quantify posaconazole concentration in plasma collected from adult patients at the end of the dosing interval. Associations between variables were tested using the Pearson test. The Mann-Whitney test was used to probe the influence of categorical variables on continuous ones. A high inter-individual variability was shown. Of the 172 enrolled patients, among those receiving the drug by the oral route (

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antifungalHPLCinvasive fungal infections (IFIs)therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)triazoles

Identifiers

PMID29156624
PMCPMC5744090
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