Impact of Adopting Population Pharmacokinetics for Tailoring Prophylaxis in Haemophilia A Patients: A Historically Controlled Observational Study

Michaela Stemberger; Felix Kallenbach; Elisabeth Schmit; Alanna McEneny-King; Federico Germini; Cindy H. T. Yeung; Andrea N. Edginton; Sylvia von Mackensen; Karin Kurnik; Alfonso Iorio

doi:10.1055/s-0039-1677700

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Thromb Haemost 2019; 119(03): 368-376
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1677700

Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Impact of Adopting Population Pharmacokinetics for Tailoring Prophylaxis in Haemophilia A Patients: A Historically Controlled Observational Study

Michaela Stemberger

¹Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

²Abteilung für Transfusionsmedizin, Zelltherapeutika und Hämostaseologie, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

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Felix Kallenbach

²Abteilung für Transfusionsmedizin, Zelltherapeutika und Hämostaseologie, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

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Elisabeth Schmit

²Abteilung für Transfusionsmedizin, Zelltherapeutika und Hämostaseologie, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

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Alanna McEneny-King

³School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Federico Germini

⁴Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

⁵Department of Health Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

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Cindy H. T. Yeung

⁴Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Andrea N. Edginton

³School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Sylvia von Mackensen

⁶Institut und Poliklinik für Medizinische Psychologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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Karin Kurnik

⁷Zentrum für Pädiatrische Hämostaseologie, Dr. von Haunersches Kinderspital, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

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Alfonso Iorio

⁴Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

⁸McMaster-Bayer Chair for Clinical Epidemiology Research in Bleeding Disorders, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Abstract

Background Performing individual pharmacokinetics (PK) studies in clinical practice can be simplified by adopting population PK-based profiling on limited post-infusion samples. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of population PK in tailoring prophylaxis in patients with haemophilia A.

Patients and Methods Individual weekly treatment plans were developed considering predicted plasma factor activity levels and patients' lifestyle. Patients were trained using a visual traffic-light scheme to help modulate their level of physical activity with respect to factor infusions timing. Annualized joint bleeding rate (ABJR), haemophilia-specific quality of life questionnaire for adults (Haemo-QoL-A) and factor utilization were measured for 12 months before and after tailoring, compared within patients and analysed separately for those previously on prophylaxis (P), situational prophylaxis (SP) or on-demand (OD).

Results Sixteen patients previously on P, 10 on SP and 10 on OD were enrolled in the study. The median (lower, upper quartile) ABJR changed from 2.0 (0, 4.0) to 0 (0, 1.6) for P (p = 0.003), from 2.0 (2.0, 13.6) to 3.0 (1.4, 7.2) for SP (p = 0.183) and from 16.0 (13.0, 25.0) to 2.3 (0, 5.0) for OD (p = 0.003). The Haemo-QoL-A total score improved for 58% of P, 50% of SP and 29% of OD patients. Factor utilization (IU/kg/patient/year) increased by 2,400 (121; 2,586) for P, 1,052 (308; 1,578) for SP and 2,086 (1,498; 2,576) for OD. One of 138 measurements demonstrated a factor activity level below the critical threshold of 0.03 IU/mL while the predicted level was above the threshold.

Conclusion Implementing tailored prophylaxis using a Bayesian forecasting approach in a routine clinical practice setting may improve haemophilia clinical outcomes.

Keywords

haemophilia - pharmacokinetics - prophylaxis - individualized - personalized

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