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Abstract
Objectives: To determine the impacts of missed phenobarbital (PB) doses on its pharmacokinetics and to investigate the appropriate replacement dosing scheme for various PB missed dose scenarios.
Methods: Monte Carlo simulations were performed using parameters from the selected population pharmacokinetic study. The impacts of missed PB dose and the proper replacement dosing scheme were assessed based on the percent deviation of simulated concentrations outside the reference range from the full adherence scenario.
Results: The impact of missed PB dose on its concentrations depended on the daily dose. The replacement with a respective regular dose and one and a half regular dose was appropriate for the one and two missed doses scenarios for patients receiving PB monotherapy. For patients receiving PB with valproic acid or phenytoin, the same replacement scheme was still appropriate. The results also indicated that weight did not influence the proper replacement dosing scheme.
Conclusions: The impacts of missed PB doses on its pharmacokinetics were identified and the proper replacement dosing schemes for different missed dose scenarios were proposed. These schemes should be implemented based on the clinician's justification of the patient's seizure control.
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Drug Metabolism and Personalized Therapy (DMPT) is a peer-reviewed journal, and is abstracted/indexed in relevant major Abstracting Services. It provides up-to-date research articles, reviews and opinion papers in the wide field of drug metabolism research, covering established, new and potential drugs, environmentally toxic chemicals, the mechanisms by which drugs may interact with each other and with biological systems, and the pharmacological and toxicological consequences of these interactions and drug metabolism and excretion. Topics: drug metabolizing enzymes, pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics, biochemical pharmacology, molecular pathology, clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and drug-drug interactions, immunopharmacology, neuropsychopharmacology.