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Georgios Schoretsanitis1, Jose de Leon2, Ekkehard Haen3
1University Hospital of Psychiatry, Bern, Switzerland; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; JARA - Translational Brain Medicine, Germany.
Abstract:
We aimed to explore the differences in the pharmacokinetics of risperidone between oral and long-acting injectable (LAI) formulations using a large database of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). Plasma concentrations of risperidone (RIS), its active metabolite (9-OH-RIS) and the active moiety (AM) (RIS+9-OH-RIS), their concentration-to-dose (C/D) ratios and ratio of RIS/9-OH-RIS (an index of CYP2D6 metabolic activity) were used to compare patients receiving risperidone orally (n = 851) and those treated with LAI RIS (n = 63). Patients taking CYP inducers or inhibitors or with liver/renal impairment were eliminated. Our study demonstrated that patients on LAI RIS, despite slightly higher RIS doses in the oral group, showed no significant differences in total AM or 9-OH-RIS. Conversely, RIS concentration, RIS C/D ratio and total C/D ratio were slightly higher in the LAI RIS group, reaching significance due to the large sample size. More importantly, the median ratio of RIS/9-OH-RIS was 0.52 in LAI RIS vs. 0.25 in the oral group, providing a significant difference (p < 0.001). After controlling for confounding factors, we replicated the RIS/9-OH-RIS ratio increases in patients with LAI RIS, probably reflecting a decrease in first-pass metabolism. More studies are required to establish the clinical use of TDM for patients on LAI RIS.
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