Cyclosporin A pharmacokinetics in liver transplant recipients in relation to biliary T-tube clamping and liver dysfunction.
Open Access
- 1 March 1989
- Vol. 30 (3), 391-396
- https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.30.3.391
Abstract
Cyclosporin A pharmacokinetics were studied after oral (4-14 mg/kg body weight) and intravenous dosing (1.5-3.5 mg/kg) in 13 orthotopic liver transplant recipients before and after permanent clamping of the biliary T-tube. After T-tube clamping, cyclosporin A absorption was faster and more complete with the mean time of peak concentration, tmax, reduced to around three hours from around six hours and mean bioavailability rising from only 16.6% (n = 13) to 30% in the entire group (n = 11 after clamping) or to 35% after excluding two patients who developed severe cholestasis after the preclamping study. Bioavailability in these two patients fell below 8% and to around 1% in a further patient with severe graft dysfunction. Clamping reduced the metabolic clearance of cyclosporin A by only 25% from a mean before clamping of 2.9 ml/min/kg to 2.3 ml/min/kg (n = 11). Oral cyclosporin A becomes a reliable means of maintaining therapeutic drug concentrations only after bioavailability increases in association with T-tube clamping and in the absence of severe liver dysfunction or cholestasis.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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