Drug-Drug Interaction between Tacrolimus and Fluconazole in a Kidney Transplant Recipient.

Exp Clin Transplant

From the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, National Centre Chalbi Belkahia of Pharmacovigilance, Tunis, Tunisia and the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.

Published: January 2024

We report a case of tacrolimus and fluconazole drug-drug interaction in a 20-year-old female kidney transplant recipient with stable kidney function. The patient's tacrolimus blood concentrations were in the therapeutic range until fluconazole was administrated for Candida albicans infection, on day 58 posttransplant. Tacrolimus blood concentration increased by 125% (18.4 ng/mL) on day 79 and by 212% (25.4 ng/mL) on day 84 posttransplant. On day 92, tacrolimus trough blood concentration returned to the therapeutic range (5.6 ng/mL), with decrease of tacrolimus daily dose by 50% (to 4 mg). After fluconazole withdrawal, the patient was returned to the initial tacrolimus daily dose (8 mg) to maintain a tacrolimus trough blood concentration in the therapeutic range. Fluconazole coadministration with tacrolimus shows a significant clinical effect on tacrolimus trough blood concentration in kidney transplant patients. Maintaining a tacrolimus trough blood concentration in the therapeutic range is crucial for these patients; therefore, physicians should be aware of fluconazole prescriptions.

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