1. Therapeutic drug monitoring of children and adolescents treated with aripiprazole: observational results from routine patient care
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R. Burger, Claudia Mehler-Wex, Christine Kulpok, Karin Egberts, Andreas Karwautz, Christoph Wewetzer, Michaela Mitterer, Marcel Romanos, Regina Taurines, Isabel Boege, Stefanie Fekete, Kristian Holtkamp, Su-Yin Reuter-Dang, and Manfred Gerlach
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Adult ,Male ,0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Aripiprazole ,Reference range ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Therapeutic index ,Internal medicine ,Pharmacovigilance ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Biological Psychiatry ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Clinical study design ,medicine.disease ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,030104 developmental biology ,Neurology ,Therapeutic drug monitoring ,Schizophrenia ,Female ,Observational study ,Patient Care ,Neurology (clinical) ,Drug Monitoring ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Antipsychotic Agents ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Although aripiprazole is one of the most used antipsychotics, knowledge about serum concentrations in children and adolescents is scarce and age-specific therapeutic ranges have not been established yet. Data of a routine therapeutic drug monitoring service were analyzed in order to evaluate the relationship between dose and serum concentration of aripiprazole in children and adolescents. The study also aimed to evaluate whether the therapeutic reference range defined for adults with schizophrenia (100–350 ng/ml) is applicable for minors. Data from 130 patients (aged 7–19 years) treated with aripiprazole for different indications in doses of 2–30 mg/day were evaluated. Patient characteristics, doses, serum concentrations and therapeutic outcome were assessed by standardized measures. A positive mean correlation between body weight-corrected daily dose and aripiprazole concentration was found (rp = 0.59, p
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- 2020