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A clinician must be concerned with the amount of a distribution and can override plasma protein bind- drug dose that reaches the systemic circulation purchase fildena 50mg with visa, ing buy 25 mg fildena fast delivery, so C is incorrect. Finally, D is incorrect, since in since this will affect the plasma concentration and general the more lipophilic a drug is, the greater therapeutic effects observed. Bioavailability is highly SUPPLEMENTAL READING dependent on the drug and the route of administra- Birkett DJ. Abeen treated for 3 years with the Approximately five half-lives are required for antiarrhythmic amiodarone 200 mg and the functionally complete drug elimination. The take approximately 6 months (5 half-lives) before patient began having liver and ocular toxicity due to the amiodarone is eliminated from the body. The physician decided to discontinue amiodarone strongly inhibits metabolism of S- amiodarone therapy because of these adverse warfarin (active enantiomer), it will continue to effects. Thus, the dose of international normalized ratio (INR), a measure of warfarin will have to be monitored approximately blood clotting, was greatly elevated, placing the every month and adjusted if necessary. The half-life of months, until the metabolism of warfarin stabilizes amiodarone is approximately 35 days. For how long and a constant dose of warfarin can again be should the physician continue to monitor the INR? Human development Tanner stages I, II, and III are appropriately considered follows a continuum of time-related events. There are children; those who are Tanner stages IV and V are con- unique therapeutic differences and concerns associated sidered adults. This Glucuronidation pathways appear after 20 weeks of ges- chapter discusses some of these principles and the cau- tation and so are limited in extremely premature infants. Many mothers and therefore their infants are receiving corticosteroids to induce maturation of the lungs. Some fetal cardiac ar- rhythmias, such as supraventricular tachycardia, are suc- DRUG DISPOSITION IN PEDIATRIC cessfully managed by treating the mother during preg- PATIENTS nancy. Since most drugs cross the placenta, the infant In spite of recent advances in this area, knowledge of has the potential to be affected by drugs that the the disposition and actions of drugs in children is lim- mother takes. This lack of information has made drug therapy for sponsibility of the fetus, as the placenta and the mater- them difficult and dangerous. There are two major ob- nal liver and kidneys contribute significantly to drug stacles to clinical drug studies in children. At birth, term infants can metabolize and eliminate The second obstacle is inherent to children; they grow drugs. Drug studies must be performed on during fetal life and therefore even at birth are not very children at each stage of their development to deter- efficient. The ability to absorb and infants, term infants from birth through the first month eliminate drugs increases slowly over the first month of of life, children 1 month to 2 years of age, children 2 to life. Acid Renal blood flow 5–12 mo initially is secreted within the first few hours after birth, reaching peak levels within the first 10 days of life. Maternally administered drugs also may affect in- Gastric acid secretion approaches the lower limits of fants who are breast-fed. However, several drugs secretion is often delayed in infants with delayed initia- can reach concentrations sufficient to adversely affect tion of oral feedings, such as extreme preemies and the newborn. Formulas garding risks to the infant from drug in breast milk is containing long-chain fatty acids will delay gastric emp- not available. Both gastric emptying time and small-intestine The period from 1 month to 2 years of age is a time peristalsis tend to be slow until the later part of the first of rapid growth and maturation. Paradoxically, tying time dramatically increases, as does splanchnic between 2 and 12 years of age drug clearance greatly in- blood flow.