Comparative effects of 15 antidepressants on the risk of withdrawal syndrome: A real-world study using the WHO pharmacovigilance database.

Background: While case reports and clinical trials reported withdrawal syndrome after reduction and/or discontinuation of antidepressant drugs, no large study has been conducted to compare the risk between the different antidepressants.

Methods: Using data recorded from January 1st, 1988, and December 31st, 2020 in VigiBase®, the World Health Organization's Global Individual Case Safety Reports database, we performed disproportionality analysis to investigate the risk of reporting withdrawal syndrome in patients treated by short half-life antidepressants compared with patients treated by long half-life antidepressants. In addition, we aimed to better inform clinical practice by comparing 15 antidepressants for the risk of reporting withdrawal syndrome.

Relevance of CYP2B6 and CYP2D6 genotypes to methadone pharmacokinetics and response in the OPAL study.

Aims: Our study aimed to evaluate the impacts of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2B6-G516T and CYP2D6 genetic polymorphisms on pharmacokinetic and clinical parameters in patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment.

Methods: Opioid PhArmacoLogy (OPAL) was a clinical survey of the sociodemographic characteristics, history and consequences of pathology associated with methadone maintenance treatment response and current addictive comorbidities. A subgroup of 72 methadone patients was genotyped.

Cannabis and anticancer drugs: societal usage and expected pharmacological interactions - a review.

Cannabis is a plant that has been used for centuries to relieve a wide range of symptoms. Since the 1960s, interest in medical research into this plant has grown steadily. Already very popular for recreational use, a growing number of consumers not accustomed to using cannabis for psychoactive purposes have begun to use it as an alternative or complement to mainstream pharmaceutical medicines.

Evaluation of a Methotrexate Chemiluminescent Microparticle Immunoassay: Comparison to Fluorescence Polarization Immunoassay and Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry.

Objectives: For most laboratories, methotrexate (MTX) concentrations are routinely monitored by fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA). In anticipation of an announced withdrawal of the FPIA reagent on the Abbott TDxFLx (Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, IL), we have evaluated a new reagent kit developed by Abbott on the Architect i1000, based on chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay (CMIA).

Methods: Precision, inaccuracy, and selectivity were assessed.

Stability and Compatibility of Antibiotics in Peritoneal Dialysis Solutions Applied to Automated Peritoneal Dialysis in The Pediatric Population.

♦ OBJECTIVES: Assess the stability of several antibiotics in peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions under common conditions of use in pediatrics, particularly in automated PD. ♦ METHODS: Amoxicillin, cefazolin, cefepime, ceftazidime, imipenem, cotrimoxazole, tobramycin, vancomycin, and the association of ceftazidime + vancomycin and ceftazidime + tobramycin, were tested in 3 different PD solutions: bicarbonate/lactate solution with 2 glucose concentrations (Physioneal 1.36 and 3.

Use of psychotropic drug urine test strips in opiate maintenance therapy: A clinical assessment of its advantages.

Background: Methadone and buprenorphine are the 2 opiate maintenance treatments (OMTs) available in France. According to good clinical practices, a full clinical and biological assessment is required before deciding to initiate or renew an OMT. For methadone, this assessment includes psychoactive drug consumption investigation through an initial interview completed by a systematic urine test mandatory before starting methadone treatment.

UGT1A1 genotype and irinotecan therapy: general review and implementation in routine practice.

Irinotecan is a major drug in the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer. Its active form is the SN38 metabolite, which is cleared by the biliary route after glucuronidation by uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1). UGT1A1 activity exhibits a wide intersubject variability, in part related to UGT1A1 gene polymorphisms.

Chiral on-line solid phase extraction coupled to liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay for quantification of (R) and (S) enantiomers of methadone and its main metabolite in plasma.

The authors aimed at developing a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method with online extraction to determine (R)- and (S)- methadone enantiomers and its main metabolite 2-ethylidine-1,5-dimethyl-3,3 diphenylpyrrolidine (EDDP) in plasma. The analysis combined straightforward sample preparation, consisting of protein precipitation with acetonitrile, and an online enrichment by a flush/back-flush cycle before the second dimension chromatography. Using D3-deuterated internal standards allows overcoming significant relative matrix effect.

Crushed and injected buprenorphine tablets: characteristics of princeps and generic solutions.

Self-injection of high-dose buprenorphine is responsible for well-described complications. In 2011, we have been alerted by unusual but serious cutaneous complication among injection buprenorphine users. A prospective data collection identified 30 cases of necrotic cutaneous lesions after injection of filtered buprenorphine solution, among which 25 cases occurred following injection of buprenorphine generics.

Disseminated Mucormycosis With Cerebral Involvement Owing to Rhizopus Microsporus in a Kidney Recipient Treated With Combined Liposomal Amphotericin B and Posaconazole Therapy.

Three months after a kidney transplant, a man experienced an internuclear ophthalmoplegia. Magnetic resonance imaging found a punctuate hyperintensity of the brainstem. Afterwards, the patient presented with peripheral facial paralysis.

[Interest of UGT1A1 genotyping within digestive cancers treatment by irinotecan].

Irinotecan is a cytotoxic agent administered by IV infusion in the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer. Its anticancer activity results from its bioactivation into SN-38 metabolite, which is cleared through glucuronidation by the hepatic enzyme uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1). In the general population, there is wide inter-subject variability in UGT1A1 enzyme activity related to UGT1A1 gene polymorphisms.

Clinical relevance of the interaction when switching non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors in patients infected with HIV.

Substitution of a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) with another drug of the same class combined with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors is a therapeutic strategy that can improve the tolerability of antiretroviral treatment. According to the pharmacokinetic properties of NNRTIs, this substitution generates pharmacokinetic drug interactions between NNRTIs, which could decrease NNRTI exposure and virological efficacy during the introductory phase of the new NNRTI. Pharmacokinetics and clinical data are reviewed to estimate the risk for switching from efavirenz to nevirapine, efavirenz to etravirine, efavirenz to rilpivirine and nevirapine to rilpivirine.

Evaluation of the QMS® Teicoplanin Immunoassay (ThermoFisher Scientific) on Cobas® 8000 System (Roche Diagnostics) and comparison to fluorescence polarization immunoassay for the determination of teicoplanin concentrations in human plasma.

Background: The performances of the QMS(®) Teicoplanin immunoassay recently developed on Cobas(®) 6000/8000 systems were evaluated and compared to a fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) [Teicoplanin Innofluor(®) Assay (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Indianapolis, IN)] on FLX analyzer (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL)].

Methods: The validation was performed according to the Cofrac (French Accreditation Committee) document SH GTA 04. For the comparison, 48 plasma samples were analyzed by FPIA and QMS assays.

Effect of efavirenz, nevirapine, etravirine, and raltegravir administration on the pharmacokinetics of ritonavir-boosted darunavir in a population of HIV-infected patients.

Abstract The influence of efavirenz, etravirine, raltegravir, and nevirapine administration on the pharmacokinetics of ritonavir-boosted darunavir was investigated using population pharmacokinetics analysis. The population was composed of 142 patients infected with HIV: darunavir plus nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI), 54 patients (group A); darunavir plus efavirenz±NRTI, 4 patients (group B); darunavir plus etravirine±NRTI, 5 patients (group C); darunavir plus nevirapine±NRTI, 21 patients (group D); darunavir plus raltegravir±NRTI, 38 patients (group E); and darunavir plus raltegravir and etravirine±NRTI, 20 patients (group F). A significant increase in darunavir clearance in combination with nevirapine (+66%) and efavirenz (+235%) was observed.

[Level of evidence for therapeutic drug monitoring of ceftriaxone].

Ceftriaxone is a third generation cephalosporin with an original pharmacokinetics based on a long elimination half-life among cephalosporins, a high protein binding and a dual renal and biliary elimination. Also the pharmacokinetic parameters of ceftriaxone are highly variable in clinical situations such as severe renal insufficiency, liver and renal insufficiency, the elderly, the neonates less than 1 week of age and critically ill patients. In these clinical situations associated or not with high minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) level, the relationship concentration-clinical outcome based on the ratio between trough plasma concentration and MIC can allow a dose adjustment.

Colchicine-induced rhabdomyolysis in a heart/lung transplant patient with concurrent use of cyclosporin, pravastatin, and azithromycin.

We report a case of colchicine-induced rhabdomyolysis in a heart/lung-transplanted man treated with cyclosporin. A treatment was to resolve an acute gouty arthritis and was started with 3 mg of colchicine the first day, then 2 mg the second and the third day, and finally 1 mg/d during 6 days. Eight days later, the patient developed multiple organ failure and rhabdomyolysis.

[Therapeutic drug monitoring of levetiracetam].

Levetiracetam is an anticonvulsant drug used to treat partial seizures, myoclonic seizures of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures. A review of the literature with an evidence-based medicine method highlighted parameters (age, renal failure, pregnancy, combination with other anticonvulsant drugs) which affect levetiracetam pharmacokinetics but no significant relationship between plasma concentration of levetiracetam and efficacy or toxicity. Concentrations usually observed in therapeutics is from 6 to 18 mg/L.

[Therapeutic drug monitoring of oxcarbazepine].

Oxcarbazepine is an analogue of carbamazepine, used for the treatment of partial seizure with or without secondary generalization. The two forms R and S of the mono-hydroxylated derivatives (MHD) are responsible for most of the anti-convulsant activity and it is the concentrations of MHD that are relevant in therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). Analysis of currently literature provides no well-established relationship between plasma concentration of MHD and efficiency or toxicity.

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Levetiracetam is an anticonvulsant drug used to treat partial seizures, myoclonic seizures of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures. A review of the literature with an evidence-based medicine method highlighted parameters (age, renal failure, pregnancy, combination with other anticonvulsant drugs) which affect levetiracetam pharmacokinetics but no significant relationship between plasma concentration of levetiracetam and efficacy or toxicity. Concentrations usually observed in therapeutics is from 6 to 18 mg/L.

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Oxcarbazepine is an analogue of carbamazepine, used for the treatment of partial seizure with or without secondary generalization. The two forms R and S of the mono-hydroxylated derivatives (MHD) are responsible for most of the anti-convulsant activity and it is the concentrations of MHD that are relevant in therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). Analysis of currently literature provides no well-established relationship between plasma concentration of MHD and efficiency or toxicity.

A fast and efficient HLA multimer-based sorting procedure that induces little apoptosis to isolate clinical grade human tumor specific T lymphocytes.

HLA multimers are now widely used to stain and sort CD8 T lymphocytes specific for epitopes from viral or tumoral antigens presented in an HLA class I context. However, the transfer of this technology to a clinical setting to obtain clinical grade CD8 T lymphocytes that may be used in adoptive cell transfer (ACT) is hindered by two main obstacles: the first obstacle is the use of streptavidin or derived products that are not available in clinical grade to multimerize HLA/peptide monomers and the second is the reported high degree of apoptosis that eventually occurs when T cell receptors are crosslinked by HLA multimers. In the present report, we describe new HLA multimers composed of immunomagnetic beads covalently coupled to a mAb specific for the AviTag peptide and coated with HLA/peptide monomers bearing the non biotinylated AviTag at the COOH terminus of the HLA heavy chain.

PBMC are as good a source of tumor-reactive T lymphocytes as TIL after selection by Melan-A/A2 multimer immunomagnetic sorting.

Choosing a reliable source of tumor-specific T lymphocytes and an efficient method to isolate these cells still remains a critical issue in adoptive cellular therapy (ACT). In this study, we assessed the capacity of MHC/peptide based immunomagnetic sorting followed by polyclonal T cell expansion to derive pure polyclonal and tumor-reactive Melan-A specific T cell populations from melanoma patient's PBMC and TIL. We first demonstrated that this approach was extremely efficient and reproducible.