Drug Elimination and Renal Clearance Part 1 Flashcards
What is drug elimination?
Irreversible removal of drug from the body by all routes of elimination
What does a declining plasma drug concentration indicate?
- Drug is being eliminate but not necessarily differentiate between distribution and elimination
- Doesn’t indicate which elimination processes are involved
What are 2 major components of drug elimination?
- Removal of intact drug
- Biotransformation (drug metabolism)
What is the removal of intact drug?
Nonvolatile and polar drugs are excreted daily renal, where the drug passes through the kidney to the bladder and to urine
What are other excretion pathways?
- Bile
- Sweat
- Saliva, milk
- Volatile compounds (lungs)
What is biotransformation?
Process by which the drug is chemically converted in the body to a metabolite
Usually enzymatic but can be non
Where are most drugs biotransformed?
- Liver
- Kidney, lungs, small intestine, skin
How is drug elimination a complex rate process?
The tissues within the organs are not structurally homogenous, and elimination may vary in each organ
Describe drug elimination in 1st order?
Clearance is based on a well stirred model with uniform drug distribution
What is clearance?
- The process of drug elimination from the body or from a single organ without identifying the individual processes involved
- The volume of fluid removed of the drug from the body per unit of time
- L/h
What is the volume concept?
All drugs are dissolved and distributed in the fluids of the body
Why is clearance more important than half-life
It directly relates to the systemic exposure of a drug
What is clearance vs half-life?
H: Gives info on the terminal phase of drug disposition
C: Account all process of drug elimination regardless of metabolism
Cl = Dose/AUC
Describe drug clearance?
- Drug is dissolved in a fixed volume
- Clearance is a fixed volume (contains drug) removed per unit time
What are the equations of clearance?
Cl= elimination rate/plasma concentration
= CpkVd/Cp
What is the elimination rate equation?
dDe/dt = CpkVd
When is clearance a constant?
If the rate of drug elimination is 1st order
Describe drug clearance at 1st order?
As the plasma drug concentration decreases during elimination, the rate of drug elimination decreases, but clearance remains constant
What is total clearance?
Sum of all of many clearance processes
What is compartmental model?
The calculation of clearance from a rate constant and a volume of distribution
What is physiologic model?
Calculated for any organ or tissue group that irreversibly removes drugq
What are the variable of physiologic model?
Q: organ blood flow
Ca: incoming drug concentration (arterial)
Cv: outgoing drug concentration (venous)
What are the primary organs for excretion and biotransformation?
Kidney and liver
How is organ clearance defined?
Fraction of blood containing drug that flows through the organ and is eliminated of drug per unit time
Cl (organ) = Q (organ) x E (organ)
What happens if Ca is greater than Cv?
Drug has been extracted by the organ
What is the extraction ratio?
E = Ca - Cv/Ca
What is organ clearance dependent on?
- Blood flow
- Extraction ratio
What does organ clearance look at?
Constant volume in which drug is distributed or removed per unit time
Why is physiologic model not commonly used for hepatic clearance?
Hard to measure organ blood flow and extraction ratio directly
What is renal clearance used for?
- More transitional models can be used
- Can easily direct measurements of blood flow and extraction ratio by plasma blood concentration and urine
How is clearance calculated in noncompartmental model?
AUC
What are the advantages of non-compartmental model?
- Cl can easily be calculated without making assumptions relating to rate constants
- Vd is presented in a clinically useful context as it is related to systemic exposure and the dose administered
- Estimation is robust in the context of rich sampling data as very little model is involved
- Approach still assumes log-linear terminal elimination phase
How is Non-Com Cl model calculated?
Cl = Dose/AUC
Cl = F*Dose/Auc