Pharmacokinetics, metabolism, and disposition of deferasirox in beta-thalassemic patients with transfusion-dependent iron overload who are at pharmacokinetic steady state.
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Waldmeier, Felix, Bruin, Gerardus, Glaenzel, Ulrike, Hazell, Katharine Mary, Sechaud, Romain, Warrington, Steve and Porter, John B (2010) Pharmacokinetics, metabolism, and disposition of deferasirox in beta-thalassemic patients with transfusion-dependent iron overload who are at pharmacokinetic steady state. Drug metabolism and disposition: the biological fate of chemicals, 38 (5). pp. 808-816. ISSN 1521-009X
Abstract
Deferasirox (ICL670) is a novel once-daily, orally administered iron chelator to treat chronic iron overload in patients with transfusion-dependent anemias. Absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of [14C]deferasirox at pharmacokinetic steady state was investigated in five adult beta-thalassemic patients. Deferasirox (1000 mg) was given orally once daily for 6 days to achieve steady state. On day 7, patients received a single oral 1000-mg dose (approximately 20 mg/kg) of [14C]deferasirox (2.5 MBq). Blood, plasma, feces, and urine samples collected over 7 days were analyzed for radioactivity, deferasirox, its iron complex Fe-[deferasirox]2, and metabolites. Deferasirox was well absorbed. Deferasirox and its iron complex accounted for 87 and 10%, respectively, of the radioactivity in plasma (area under the curve at steady state). Excretion occurred largely in the feces (84% of dose), and 60% of the radioactivity in the feces was identified as deferasirox. Apparently unchanged deferasirox in feces was partly attributable to incomplete intestinal absorption and partly to hepatobiliary elimination of deferasirox (including first-pass elimination) and of its glucuronide. Renal excretion was only 8% of the dose and included mainly the glucuronide M6. Oxidative metabolism by cytochrome 450 enzymes to M1 [5-hydroxy (OH) deferasirox, presumably by CYP1A] and M4 (5'-OH deferasirox, by CYP2D6) was minor (6 and 2% of the dose, respectively). Direct and indirect evidence indicates that the main pathway of deferasirox metabolism is via glucuronidation to metabolites M3 (acyl glucuronide) and M6 (2-O-glucuronide).
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| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2012 00:45 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2013 00:46 |
| URI: | https://oak.novartis.com/id/eprint/5501 |