title: Effect of mild therapeutic hypothermia on phenytoin pharmacokinetics.
abstract: The authors examined the effect of mild therapeutic hypothermia on phenytoin pharmacokinetics in 14 patients with brain damage. Each patient was given phenytoin during and after mild therapeutic hypothermia. Plasma concentrations of total phenytoin, unbound phenytoin, and 5-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-5-phenylhydantoin (5-p-HPPH), the major metabolite of phenytoin, were measured. Pharmacokinetic parameters during and after mild therapeutic hypothermia were compared. Plasma concentrations of total and unbound phenytoin were significantly higher during hypothermia than after hypothermia. The area under the plasma concentration-time curve (zero to infinity) was increased by 180% and mean residence time was prolonged by 180% during hypothermia compared with the corresponding values after hypothermia. Moreover, the elimination constant (ke) was decreased by 50% and elimination clearance of phenytoin was decreased by 67% during hypothermia compared with the corresponding values after hypothermia. The plasma concentration of 5-p-HPPH was significantly lower during hypothermia than after hypothermia. These findings suggest that phenytoin metabolism is inhibited by mild therapeutic hypothermia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asada
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D001189:Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases; D065731:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases / Q000502:physiology; D010672:Phenytoin / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*
chemical_list: D000927:Anticonvulsants; D010672:Phenytoin; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases; D001189:Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases; C045793:CYP2C19 protein, human; D065731:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19