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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
卷 61, 期 1, 页码 41-51出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcph.1699
关键词
computer program; hydroxyurea; maximum tolerated dose; organ damage; sickle cell disease
资金
- intramural research program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
A computer program has been developed to reliably titrate hydroxyurea to maximum tolerated dose, which has shown to increase fetal hemoglobin levels in patients with sickle cell disease. Further studies are needed to evaluate the program's effectiveness.
Adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) experience acute and chronic complications and die prematurely. When taken at maximum tolerated dose (MTD), hydroxyurea prolongs survival; however, it has not consistently reversed organ dysfunction. Patients also frequently do not take hydroxyurea, at least in part because of physician discomfort with prescribing hydroxyurea. We sought to develop a computer program that could easily titrate hydroxyurea to MTD. This was a single-arm, open-label pilot study. Fifteen patients with homozygous SCD were enrolled in the protocol, and 10 patients were followed at baseline and then for 1 year after hydroxyurea initiation or dose titration. Fetal hemoglobin significantly increased in all 10 patients from 8.3% to 25.1% (P< .001). Nine patients were titrated to MTD in an average of 7.9 months, and the tenth patient's hydroxyurea dose was increased to 33 mg/kg/day. Computer program dosing recommendations were the same as manual dosing decisions made using the same algorithm for all patients and at all times. We also evaluated markers of cardiopulmonary, liver and renal damage. Although cardiopulmonary function did not significantly improve, direct bilirubin and alanine aminotransferase levels significantly decreased (P< .001 andP< .01, respectively). Last, although kidney function did not improve, degree of proteinuria was significantly reduced (P< .05). We have developed a computer program that reliably titrates hydroxyurea to MTD. A larger study is indicated to test the program either as a computer program or a downloadable application.
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