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Analysis of the valproic acid-meropenem interaction in hospitalised patients
Análisis de la interacción ácido valproico-meropenem en pacientes hospitalizados
M. Vélez-Díaz-Pallarés
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, E. Delgado Silveira, A.M. Álvarez Díaz, C. Pérez Menéndez-Conde, N. Vicente Oliveros, T. Bermejo Vicedo
Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
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distribution and metabolism that would explain the interaction&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> Avoiding coadministration is the most recent recommendation<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> and has been included in the meropenem data sheet&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> Meanwhile&#44; Mancl and Gidal<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> recommend in a recent review that&#44; in the absence of an alternative antibiotic therapy&#44; VPA levels should be monitored more frequently and the use of higher doses of VPA should be considered&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">After an exhaustive literature review&#44; we found no prospective studies with such a large number of patients that evaluated the interaction between meropenem and VPA&#46; 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whereas it was the empirical treatment of aspiration pneumonia in severely ill patients for meropenem&#46; The interaction variables collected between the 2 study periods are shown in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">During the prospective period&#44; pharmacists performed a total of 13 PI and all were reported to the physician responsible for the interaction&#46; In 4 cases&#44; the physician decided to monitor the VPA levels more closely&#44; in 3 the antibiotic was changed to piperacillin-tazobactam&#44; in 2 to levofloxacin and in 4 the prescription of both drugs was maintained&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As a result of the PI&#44; the number of days of concomitant treatment with meropenem was halved &#40;from 10 to 4&#46;7 days&#41; and VPA levels were requested 2&#46;6 times more often per day of concomitant treatment compared with the retrospective period&#46; These differences were statistically significant &#40;95&#37; confidence interval&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a> shows the drug therapy prescribed for the patient who obtained a DIPS score above 8 &#40;very likely&#41;&#46; While in hospital&#44; he received meropenem on 2 occasions&#59; in both cases the VPA levels decreased to less than therapeutic values&#44; even though higher doses of the antiepileptic agent were prescribed during those days&#46; On the first occasion&#44; after 2 days of meropenem treatment&#44; it was decided to change the antibiotic to levofloxacin&#44; and on the second to piperacillin-tazobactam&#44; followed in both cases by PI&#46; Once the effect of meropenem was over in this patient&#44; the dose of VPA could be reduced to the initial value and the therapeutic dosage levels were recovered&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Following administration of a single dose of meropenem&#44; 1 of the patients presented seizures that were directly related to the interaction&#44; since less than 24<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h after the administration of antibiotics&#44; the VPA levels were 28&#46;80<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#956;g&#47;ml &#40;infratherapeutic&#41;&#46; The antibiotic was then changed to piperacillin-tazobactam&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Discussion</span><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">From a pharmacokinetic standpoint&#44; the interaction between VPA and meropenem is very complex&#44; since it seems to involve numerous mechanisms that lower antiepileptic agent concentrations&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> A decrease in the absorption of VPA&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a> decrease in its enterohepatic recycling&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> a change in distribution volume reducing the free drug proportion<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a> and&#44; finally&#44; increase in VPA glucuronidation<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a> could all justify such abrupt reductions in plasma concentrations of the antiepileptic agent&#46;</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Coinciding with other authors&#44; our study found that the interaction between meropenem and VPA was potentially serious&#44; especially due to the speed with which plasma concentration of the antiepileptic agent decreased and the consequences this entailed&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19&#44;20</span></a> In our study&#44; 1 of the patients presented epileptic seizures after administration of a single dose of meropenem&#46; Monitoring the antiepileptic revealed a decrease in VPA values to less than therapeutic levels within 24<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h&#44; so the interaction appears to have a very rapid onset&#46; De Turck et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a> found that the half-life of VPA decreased from 15 to 4<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h&#44; 24<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h after administration of meropenem&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Haroutiunian et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> found that&#44; during concomitant therapy with meropenem&#44; mean VPA levels were 9&#46;9<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#956;g&#47;ml&#46; None of the patients in our study maintained therapeutic levels of VPA and&#44; in addition&#44; the decrease in VPA levels after administration of the first dose of meropenem ranged between 49&#46;1&#37; and 96&#46;3&#37;&#46; Different studies have reported similar declines &#40;from 66&#37; to 90&#37;&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6&#44;11&#44;21&#44;22</span></a></p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">For some authors the recovery of VPA levels after discontinuation of the antibiotic is extended from 3 days to 2 weeks&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> However&#44; we were only able to determine it for 2 patients&#44; who recovered their levels 13 and 14 days after discontinuation of meropenem&#44; because the levels were not requested until much later for the remaining patients&#46;</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">At present there is no consensus regarding the therapeutic approach to be followed with this interaction and&#44; consequently&#44; no agreement as to the PI that must be carried out&#46; Several authors recommend closer monitoring of the antiepileptic agent when both drugs are to be administered&#44; as in those cases where it is not possible to replace either of them&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6&#44;9&#44;13&#44;23</span></a> This recommendation also appears in the technical data sheet of VPA&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> However&#44; other authors are more categorical and suggest that good clinical practice would mean not to administer both drugs together&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22&#44;24</span></a> In some countries&#44; such as Japan&#44; health authorities have banned the administration of both drugs at the same time&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> The meropenem technical data sheet also reflects that the coadministration of VPA and carbapenem agents is not manageable and should therefore be avoided&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> In 2010 the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products issued a warning on the prescription of these drugs&#44; contraindicating their simultaneous use&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a> In our case&#44; after the PI some physicians chose to carry out more comprehensive monitoring&#44; while others opted for suspending the antibiotic&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As a limitation of the study&#44; we must indicate that we did not include patients admitted to units that did not have assisted electronic prescription &#40;cardiovascular surgery ICU&#44; coronary care unit and paediatric cardiology unit&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Given the results obtained and the literature reviewed&#44; and considering that the effectiveness of anticonvulsant therapy is directly proportional to therapeutic drug levels and the vast antibiotic arsenal at our disposal&#44; we believe the first choice should be not to administer both drugs concomitantly&#46; The declines in VPA levels of up to 90&#37; in different patients in our study&#44; as well as in other published studies&#44; make it very difficult to manage VPA to achieve therapeutic levels without exceeding maximum doses&#46; Therefore&#44; we conclude that the concomitant use of both drugs should be avoided&#44; replacing the antibiotic therapy empirically or according to the resistance patterns of the microorganism being treated in order to maintain the same anticonvulsant therapy&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Conflict of interests</span><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have no conflict of interests to declare&#46;</p></span></span>"
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        "resumen" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Introduction</span><p id="spar0005" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Published data demonstrate a serious interaction between valproic acid and meropenem&#46; However&#44; recommendations about the management of concomitant treatment are contradictory&#59; some experts recommend closer monitoring of valproic acid serum concentrations and others recommend avoiding concurrent therapy&#46; The purpose of this study is to critically analyse the interaction and to evaluate the impact of pharmaceutical intervention in the use of these drugs in hospitalised patients&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Material and methods</span><p id="spar0010" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Study of the concomitant prescription of valproic acid and meropenem in a general hospital of 1080 beds divided in to two periods&#59; the first period was retrospective and observational and it was followed by a prospective period involving pharmaceutical intervention&#46; The prescription habits between both periods were compared&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Results</span><p id="spar0015" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">A total of 26 patients received concurrent treatment with valproic acid and meropenem &#40;13 per period&#41; and none of them maintained therapeutic serum levels of the antiepileptic drug&#46; Pharmaceutical intervention modified prescription habits&#44; reducing by half the number of days of concomitant treatment&#44; changing the antibiotherapy and&#47;or monitoring serum concentrations more often&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Conclusions</span><p id="spar0020" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">The interaction between valproic acid and meropenem is serious&#44; especially because of the dramatic decrease in the antiepileptic serum concentrations&#46; The concomitant use of both drugs should be avoided&#44; replacing the antibiotherapy empirically&#44; or according to the resistance profiles of the microorganism and maintaining the same the anti-epileptic treatment&#46;</p>"
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