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- Title
Levetiracetam Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in a Large Cohort of Korean Epileptic Patients.
- Authors
Ha, Changhee; Lee, Hyun-Seung; Joo, Eun Yeon; Shon, Young-Min; Hong, Seung Bong; Seo, Dae-Won; Lee, Soo-Youn
- Abstract
Levetiracetam is a new antiepileptic drug (AED) used for treating and preventing partial or generalized seizures. The usefulness of levetiracetam therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is related to inter- or intra-individual pharmacokinetic variability, drug interactions, and patient noncompliance. We aimed to investigate the levetiracetam TDM status in Korean epilepsy patients. Serum trough levetiracetam concentrations were measured using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry in 710 samples from 550 patients. The median (range) daily and weight-adjusted levetiracetam doses were 1500 (20–5000) mg and 25.5 (3.03–133.0) mg/kg, respectively. Patients on levetiracetam monotherapy constituted only 19.5% of the population, while 30.1% were on co-medication with valproate and 56.0% with enzyme-inducing AEDs (EIAEDs). Observed levetiracetam concentrations were widely distributed, ranging 0.8–95 mg/L, with a median of 17.3 mg/L. Levetiracetam concentrations were therapeutic, supra-therapeutic, and sub-therapeutic in 58.5% (n = 393), 11.6% (n = 78), and 29.9% (n = 201) of samples, respectively. There was a strong correlation between weight-adjusted levetiracetam dosage and concentrations (ρ = 0.6896, p < 0.0001). In this large-scale clinical study, a large inter-individual difference in levetiracetam pharmacokinetics was observed, and levetiracetam concentrations were influenced by EIAEDs. For individual dose adjustments and monitoring compliance, routine levetiracetam TDM is needed in epilepsy patients.
- Subjects
DRUG monitoring; LEVETIRACETAM; LIQUID chromatography-mass spectrometry; PEOPLE with epilepsy; PATIENT compliance
- Publication
Pharmaceuticals (14248247), 2021, Vol 14, Issue 8, p826
- ISSN
1424-8247
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ph14080826