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ArticleJournal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics2021

Modeling of levothyroxine in newborns and infants with congenital hypothyroidism: challenges and opportunities of a rare disease multi-center study.

Gilbert Koch, Britta Steffens, Stephanie Leroux, Verena Gotta, Johannes Schropp, Pascal Gächter, Freya Bachmann, Tatjana Welzel, Marco Janner, Dagmar L'Allemand and 3 more

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Article in Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Gilbert KochPediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Gilbert.Koch@ukbb.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-9386-0506
Britta SteffensPediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Stephanie LerouxPediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Verena GottaPediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Johannes SchroppDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Pascal GächterPediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Freya BachmannDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Tatjana WelzelPediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Marco JannerPediatric Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, Bern University Hospital , University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Dagmar L'AllemandDepartment of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Daniel KonradDivision of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology and Children's Research Centre, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9067-4356
Gabor SzinnaiPediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0559-2597
Marc PfisterPediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SCHR 692/3-1Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 179510
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modeling of retrospectively collected multi-center data of a rare disease in pediatrics is challenging because laboratory data can stem from several decades measured with different assays. Here we present a retrospective pharmacometrics (PMX) based data analysis of the rare disease congenital hypothyroidism (CH) in newborns and infants. Our overall aim is to develop a model that can be applied to optimize dosing in this pediatric patient population since suboptimal treatment of CH during the first 2 years of life is associated with a reduced intelligence quotient between 10 and 14 years. The first goal is to describe a retrospectively collected dataset consisting of 61 newborns and infants with CH up to 2 years of age. Overall, 505 measurements of free thyroxine (FT4) and 510 measurements of thyrotropin or thyroid-stimulating hormone were available from patients receiving substitution treatment with levothyroxine (LT4). The second goal is to introduce a scale/location-scale normalization method to merge available FT4 measurements since 34 different postnatal age- and assay-specific laboratory reference ranges were applied. This method takes into account the change of the distribution of FT4 values over time, i.e. a transformation from right-skewed towards normality during LT4 treatment. The third goal is to develop a practical and useful PMX model for LT4 treatment to characterize FT4 measurements, which is applicable within a clinical setting. In summary, a time-dependent normalization method and a practical PMX model are presented. Since there is no on-going or planned development of new pharmacological approaches for CH, PMX based modeling and simulation can be leveraged to personalize dosing with the goal to enhance longer-term neurological outcome in children with the rare disease CH.

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Child, PreschoolCongenital HypothyroidismFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornLongitudinal StudiesMaleRare DiseasesRetrospective StudiesThyrotropinThyroxineThyrotropinThyroxineCongenital hypothyroidismLevothyroxineNormalizationPediatricsPharmacokineticsRare diseaseReference rangeScale/location-scaleThyroid

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PMID34117565
PMCPMC8405503

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