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BACKGROUND Vascular calcification is a major risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In Western countries, Blacks appear to have lesser degrees of vascular calcification compared to non-Blacks. However, there is no published data from sub-Saharan Africa. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study assessed the 5-year change in vascular calcification and mortality in a previously published cohort of patients with ESRD. Vascular calcification was assessed by abdominal aortic calcification score and vascular stiffness by pulse wave velocity (PWV). RESULTS 66 of the original 74 participants studied at baseline were identified. The median age was 46.6 years (37.6 - 59.2), and 57.6% were women. Abdominal aortic calcification showed no progression among Blacks (baseline range 0 - 5, follow-up range 0 - 8 (p = 1.00)), but a trend to progression among non-Blacks (baseline range 0 - 19, follow up range 0 - 22 (p = 0.066)). Black participants did not display a survival advantage (p = 0.870). Non-Blacks had higher parathyroidectomy rates than Blacks with 9/30 cases compared to 2/36 (p = 0.036). After adjustment for parathyroidectomy at follow-up, the odds ratio of having abdominal vascular calcification score of ≥ 1 amongst non-Blacks was 8.6-fold greater compared to Blacks (p = 0.03). A positive correlation (r = 0.5) was observed between PWV and abdominal aortic calcification (p = 0.047). Elevated baseline coronary artery calcification score and FGF-23 level at baseline were not associated with a difference in mortality. CONCLUSION There was no significant progression in vascular calcification among Blacks. After adjusting for increased parathyroidectomy rates, there was a greater progression of vascular calcification amongst non-Blacks compared to Blacks.
.OBJECTIVE The great discrepancy between clinical guidelines and the routine psychiatric practice in the treatment of schizophrenia is a subject of intensive research, with the aim to promote the rational prescribing of antipsychotics. The aim of this study was to analyze the pattern of drug prescribing in the treatment of inpatients with the first episode of schizophrenia spectrum disorders and the impact of the implementation of the Serbian National Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Schizophrenia. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Clinic for Mental Disorders "Dr Laza Lazarević" in Belgrade and included a consecutive sample of 675 previously drug-naïve patients with the first episode of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The data were obtained from the patients' medical records. The analysis of therapy prescribed at discharge included antipsychotics and non-antipsychotic adjuvant therapy. Descriptive statistical methods and methods for testing statistical hypotheses were used to analyze the primary data. RESULTS The prescribing of second-generation antipsychotics has increased both within antipsychotic monotherapy and within antipsychotic polypharmacy during the period of the study. The use of adjuvant non-antipsychotic pharmacotherapy was very common, but use of benzodiazepines, carbamazepine, and anticholinergic drugs significantly decreased. Long-acting forms of antipsychotics have been rarely used (9.3%). Clozapine was in general underprescribed (10.4%). CONCLUSION The National Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Schizophrenia most likely contributed to some positive changes in prescribing patterns during the treatment of the first psychotic episode in daily clinical practice in Serbia. However, antipsychotic polypharmacy and irrational use of adjuvant therapy was still prevalent.
.OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to use LC-MS/MS to compare the pharmacodynamic properties and bioequivalence of two 200-mg formulations of racecadotril suspension formulation (test) and granule formulation (reference) in healthy Chinese subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS A single-dose, randomized, two-period crossover study was conducted in fasted healthy Chinese subjects, who received a single oral dose of the test or reference formulation, followed by a 7-day washout period and administration of the alternate formulation. RESULTS The rapid and highly sensitive LC-MS/MS method exhibited a reasonable linearity range (2.324 - 952.000 ng/mL) and high sensitivity (LLOQ of 2.324 ng/mL). The within- and between-run precision, accuracy, and stability results were within the acceptable limits, and no matrix effect was observed. The 90% CI of the ratio of geometric means for AUC0-t, AUC0-∞, and Cmax were 88.1 - 102.3%, 87.9 - 101.5% and 99.5 - 113%, respectively, which met the regulatory criteria for bioequivalence. CONCLUSION The method is suitable for quantification of thiorphan in human plasma. In addition, the results indicated that the test and reference formulations were bioequivalent in terms of both rate and extent of absorption.
.OBJECTIVE Clopidogrel has become the mainstay oral antiplatelet regimen for recurrent ischemic event prophylaxis after acute coronary syndromes or stent placement. Stent thrombosis is considered a multifactorial problem that mostly occurs due to clopidogrel resistance. We report a case of subacute stent thrombosis in a CYP2C19*2 reduced-function allele carrier. CASE SUMMARY A 56-year-old Chinese male diabetic patient suffered from acute myocardial infarction and underwent successful percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) with two drug eluting stents (DESs). Selleckchem Y-27632 He was treated with a loading dose of aspirin 300 mg and ticagrelor 180 mg before stent placement. Ticagrelor was switched to clopidogrel of 75 mg maintenance dose, after emergency PCI. Stent thrombosis appeared 8 days after stent placement. The patient was found to be a CYP2C19*2 reduced-function allele carrier with type 2 diabetes. After intravenous administration of tirofiban, balloon angioplasty was performed, resulting in thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) III antegrade flow. CONCLUSION The present case demonstrates that both diabetes mellitus and carriage of CYP2C19*2 allele are associated with a reduced response to clopidogrel in the setting of this standard dose of clopidogrel and a high risk of stent thrombosis. CYP2C19 genetic testing seems to be helpful for identifying patients-at-risk, and optimal antiplatelet regimen should be considered in these fragile populations.
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