Chinese Journal of Pharmacovigilance ›› 2019, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (11): 678-682.
DOI: 10.19803/j.1672-8629.2019.11.08

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Stability and Variation of Plasma Concentrations of Isoniazid, Rifampicin and Pyrazinamide

ZHOU Jun, LIU Yuan, LV Xiaohui, ZHAO Yuan, XIONG Chaogang, LEI Qian, WANG Hao   

  1. Department of Pharmacy, Xi’an Chest Hospital, Xi’an Shanxi 710100, China
  • Received:2019-11-27 Revised:2019-11-27 Online:2019-11-20 Published:2019-11-27

Abstract: Objective To investigate the stability, regularity and variation of plasma drug concentration of three commonly used first-line anti-tubercular drugs, and to assess and improve the value of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in guiding individualized applications of clinical anti-tubercular drugs. Methods By comparing the deviations of plasma concentrations between two times of testing, we analyzed the stability of plasma concentrations of three of three anti-tubercular drugs - isoniazid, rifampicin and pyrazinamide. Moreover, the extent to which isoniazid, rifampicin and pyrazinamide varied was compared by uniforming and analyzing the data by dividing the deviations of the Results of two-time tests by the average of the paired Results. Results It was found that each drug had a concentration disparity between the two-time testing. However, there was no significant differences between the two lines of data in paired t-test (isoniazid: t=0.924, P=0.363; rifampicin: t=0.054, P=0.957; pyrazinamide: t=1.027, P=0.323). Further analysis revealed that the variation of isoniazid and rifampicin was larger than that of pyrazinamide. Conclusion During individualized treatment based on TDM monitoring, drugs which have large fluctuation in metabolic changes and intracorporal exposure levels, such as isoniazid and rifampicin, need to be detected more than once as actually required.

Key words: rational clinical drug use, therapeutic drug monitoring, anti-tubercular drugs, pharmacokinetics

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