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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: The impact of multiple subcutaneous (s.c.) esketamine injections on the blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) of patients with unipolar and bipolar treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is poorly understood. This study aimed to assess the cardiovascular safety of multiple s.c. doses of esketamine in patients with TRD. METHODS: Seventy TRD patients received 394 weekly s.c. esketamine injections in conjunction with oral antidepressant therapy for up to six weeks. Weekly esketamine doses were 0.5, 0.75 or 1.0 mg/kg according to each patient's response to treatment. Participants were monitored before each treatment and every 15 minutes thereafter for 120 minutes. We assessed systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and HR measurements for the entire treatment course. RESULTS: BP increased after the first s.c. esketamine injection, reaching maximum mean SBP/DBP levels of 4.87/5.54 mmHg within 30-45 minutes. At the end of monitoring, 120 minutes post dose, vital signs returned to pretreatment levels. We did not detect significant differences in BP between doses of 0.5, 0.75, and 1 mg/kg esketamine. Mean HR did not differ significantly between doses or before and after s.c. esketamine injection. CONCLUSIONS: The BP changes observed with repeated s.c. esketamine injections were mild and well tolerated for doses up to 1 mg/kg. The s.c. route is a simple and safe method of esketamine administration, even for patients with clinical comorbidities, including obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. However, 14/70 patients experienced treatment-emergent transient hypertension (SBP >180 mmHg and/or a DBP >110 mmHg). Therefore, we strongly recommend monitoring BP for 90 minutes after esketamine dosing. Since s.c. esketamine is cheap, requires less frequent dosing (once a week), and is a simpler procedure compared to intravenous infusions, it might have an impact on public health.
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Antidepressive Agents/administration & dosage , Blood Pressure/drug effects , Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant/diet therapy , Ketamine/administration & dosage , Adult , Antidepressive Agents/adverse effects , Cohort Studies , Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant/drug therapy , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Drug Monitoring/methods , Female , Heart Rate/drug effects , Humans , Hypertension/chemically induced , Hypertension/epidemiology , Injections, Subcutaneous , Ketamine/adverse effects , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
We propose a stochastic model for the drug concentration in the case of multiple oral doses and in a situation of poor patient adherence. Our model is able to take into account an irregular drug intake schedule. This article is the second in a series of three. It presents a multi-oral version of the results given in Lévy-Véhel and Lévy-Véhel (J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn 40(1):15-39, 2013), that dealt with the multi-IV bolus case. Under the assumption that the irregular dosing schedule follows a Poisson law, we study features of the drug concentration that have practical implications, such as its variability and the regularity of its cumulative probability distribution, which describes its predictive power with respect to the mean behaviour. We consider four variants: continuous-time, with either deterministic or random doses, and discrete-time, also with either deterministic or random doses. Our computations allow one to assess in a precise way the effect of various significant parameters such as the mean rate of intake, the elimination rate, the absorption rate and the mean dose. They quantify how much poor adherence will affect the efficacy of therapy. To appreciate this impact, we provide detailed comparisons with the variability of concentration in two reference situations: a fully adherent patient and a population of fully adherent patients with log-normally distributed pharmacokinetic parameters. Besides, the discrete-time versions of our models reveal unexpected links with objects which have been studied in the mathematical literature under the name of infinite Bernoulli convolutions (Erdós, Am J Math 61:974-975, 1939). This allows us to quantify the fact that, when the random dosing schedule is too sparse, the concentration behaves in a very erratic way. Our results complement the ones in Lévy-Véhel and Lévy-Véhel (J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn 40(1):15-39, 2013) and help understanding the consequences of poor adherence. They may have practical outcomes in terms of drug dosing and scheduling.
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Models, Theoretical , Patient Compliance , Pharmacokinetics , Drug Administration Schedule , Humans , ProbabilityABSTRACT
OBJETIVO: Avaliação comparativa da freqüência de hipoglicemia severa após mudança da terapia com múltiplas doses de insulina (MDI) para bomba de insulina subcutânea (BIISC). PACIENTES E MÉTODOS: Sete pacientes DM1, idade Mi = 14 anos e tempo médio de diabetes de 8 anos, comparados de acordo com a incidência de hipoglicemia, a dose total de insulina (U/Kg/d), IMC (Kg/m²) e HbA1c (vn: 3,5-6,7 por cento) 1 ano antes e 1 ano após a transferência de terapêutica. Houve redução significativa dos episódios de hipoglicemia severa (1,3 episódio/paciente/ano para zero episódio/paciente/ano; p = 0,04), na dose total diária de insulina (1,33 ± 0,26 U/Kg/dia para 0,87 ± 0,17 U/kg/dia; p = 0,04) e na HbA1c (8,7 ± 0,7 por cento para 7,8 ± 0,9 por cento; p = 0,05 com BIISC). Concluímos que a BIISC é eficaz e segura na redução de hipoglicemia severa em um subgrupo de pacientes DM1 com MDI. Entretanto, os resultados obtidos precisam ser reproduzidos em centros semelhantes e estudos de custo são necessários para que a sua viabilidade seja confirmada e aplicada nos sistemas públicos de saúde, que correspondem à maioria no nosso país.
OBJECTIVE: We compared the incidence of severe hypoglycemia episodes with therapy with multiple doses of insulin (MDI) and after changing to pump (CSII). PATIENTS AND METHODS: 7 T1DM patients with 14 years median and median duration of diabetes of 8 years. We analyzed insulin requirement (U/kg/day), BMI (Kg/m²), HbA1c (normal range: 3.5-6.7 percent) one year before and one year after changing therapy. The severe hypoglycemia episodes decreased from 1.3 to 0 episodes/patient/year; p = 0.00). The insulin requirement decreased from 1.33 ± 0.26 U/Kg/day to 0.87 ± 0.17 U/kg/day; p = 0.04 and HbA1c decreased from 8.7 ± 0.7 percent to 7.8 ± 0.9 percent; p = 0.05. CONCLUSION: CSII is efficient in decreasing severe hypoglycemia in a subgroup of T1DM using MDI also in Public Health Care System (PHCS) conditions. However, these finding should be reproduced by other Diabetes Care centers and cost studies are necessary to confirm the viability and possibility of this therapy, when necessary, to T1DM patients, which correspond to the majority of these individuals in our country, seeing in the PHCS.