Towards personalized medicine in antifungal treatment: combination of pharmacogenetics and pharmacokinetics

dc.contributor.advisorLamas Díaz, María Jesús
dc.contributor.advisorFernández Ferreiro, Anxo
dc.contributor.advisorCampos Toimil, Manuel
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Centro Internacional de Estudos de Doutoramento e Avanzados (CIEDUS)
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Escola de Doutoramento Internacional en Ciencias da Saúde
dc.contributor.authorBlanco Dorado, Sara
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-25T11:08:56Z
dc.date.available2021-06-05T01:00:10Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractVoriconazole is an antifungal agent used in aspergillosis and in fluconazole-resistant Candida spp. infections. Voriconazol is mainly metabolized by cytochrome 2C19 wich is highly polymorphic. A significant portion of patients fail to achieve therapeutic drug concentrations, with a consequently increased risk of therapeutic failure. In this work, the use of voriconazole in the real life clinical setting was studied and a HPLC method for the pharmacokinetic determination of voriconazole was developed. In addition, the factors of voriconazole pharmacokinetic variability were evaluated demonstrating the importance of CYP2C19 pharmacogenetics and pharmacokinetic drug-drug interactions.gl
dc.description.programaUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Programa de Doutoramento en Investigación e Desenvolvemento de Medicamentos
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10347/23302
dc.language.isoenggl
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessgl
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectVoriconazolgl
dc.subjectFarmacogenéticagl
dc.subjectFarmacocinéticagl
dc.subjectMedicina personalizadagl
dc.subject.classificationMaterias::Investigación::32 Ciencias médicas::3208 Farmacodinámica::320809 Procesos metabólicos de los medicamentosgl
dc.subject.classificationMaterias::Investigación::32 Ciencias médicas::3209 Farmacologíagl
dc.titleTowards personalized medicine in antifungal treatment: combination of pharmacogenetics and pharmacokineticsgl
dc.typedoctoral thesisgl
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