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Carotid Artery Infusions for Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Analysis of Taxanes in Mice
Published on: October 27, 2014
[Pharmacokinetics of "subselective" arterial infusion chemotherapy]
Y Tokairin1, M Maruyama, H Baba
1Dept. of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Ohkubo Hospital.
Abstract:
Arterial infusion chemotherapy is mainly used for lymph node and peritoneal metastases. Generally, it is said that the concentration of a drug in abdominal organs is higher with arterial infusion chemotherapy than that with systemic chemotherapy. In this study, the pharmacokinetics of arterial infusion chemotherapy for a patient who had an arterial infusion port for lymph node metastasis and peritoneal metastasis, and a hepatic arterial infusion port for liver metastasis, was evaluated. Sequential arterial infusion chemotherapy with methotrexate (MTX) and 5-FU was given. One hundred mg of methotrexate (MTX) was infused over 20 minutes into the aorta, followed by 750 mg of 5-FU over 10 minutes 2 hours later. Blood samples from a peripheral vein and hepatic artery were collected at 10, 20 and 125 minutes from the beginning of the arterial infusion chemotherapy. Then the serum concentration of MTX and 5-FU was examined. The serum concentration of MTX in the hepatic artery was 1.4 to 2.3 times higher than that in peripheral venous blood. The serum concentration of 5-FU in the hepatic artery was 4.9 to 6.0 times higher than that in peripheral venous blood. The serum concentration of drug in abdominal organ was higher with arterial infusion chemotherapy than with systemic chemotherapy. It would thus seem that the effect of arterial infusion chemotherapy is higher than that of systemic chemotherapy.
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