PK/PD analysis of biapenem in patients undergoing continuous hemodiafiltration

Case report: therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin in an acute liver failure patient with anuria under high-flow continuous hemodiafiltration

BACKGROUND

High-flow continuous hemodiafiltration (HF-CHDF) combines diffusive and convective solute removal and is employed for artificial liver adjuvant therapy. However, there is no report on dosage planning of vancomycin (VCM) in patients with acute liver failure under HF-CHDF.

CASE PRESENTATION

A 20-year-old woman (154 cm tall, weighing 50 kg) was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) with acute liver failure associated with autoimmune liver disease. On the following day, HF-CHDF was started due to elevated plasma ammonia concentration. On ICU day 8, VCM was started for suspected pneumonia and meningitis (30 mg/kg loading dose, then 20 mg/kg every 12 hrs). However, on ICU day 10, VCM blood concentration was under the limit of detection (< 3.0 μg/mL) and the patient developed anuria. The VCM dose was increased to 20 mg/kg every 6 hrs. Calculation with a one-compartment model using the HF-CHDF blood flow rate as a surrogate for VCM clearance, together with hematocrit and protein binding ratio, predicted a trough VCM blood concentration of 15 μg/mL. The observed concentration was about 12 μg/mL. The difference may represent non-HF-CHDF clearance. Finally, living donor liver transplantation was performed.

CONCLUSION

We report an acute liver failure patient with anuria under HF-CHDF in whom VCM administration failed to produce an effective blood concentration, likely due to HF-CHDF-enhanced clearance. VCM dosage adjustment proved successful, and was confirmed by calculation using a one-compartment model.

Recommendation of Antimicrobial Dosing Optimization During Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) is more and more widely used in patients for various indications recent years. It is still intricate for clinicians to decide a suitable empiric antimicrobial dosing for patients receiving CRRT. Inappropriate doses of antimicrobial agents may lead to treatment failure or drug resistance of pathogens. CRRT factors, patient individual conditions and drug pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics are the main elements effecting the antimicrobial dosing adjustment. With the development of CRRT techniques, some antimicrobial dosing recommendations in earlier studies were no longer appropriate for clinical use now. Here, we reviewed the literatures involving in new progresses of antimicrobial dosages, and complied the updated empirical dosing strategies based on CRRT modalities and effluent flow rates. The following antimicrobial agents were included for review: flucloxacillin, piperacillin/tazobactam, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime/avibactam, cefepime, ceftolozane/tazobactam, sulbactam, meropenem, imipenem, panipenem, biapenem, ertapenem, doripenem, amikacin, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, clindamycin, azithromycin, tigecycline, polymyxin B, colistin, vancomycin, teicoplanin, linezolid, daptomycin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, fluconazole, voriconazole, posaconzole, caspofungin, micafungin, amphotericin B, acyclovir, ganciclovir, oseltamivir, and peramivir.