Nele,
You can use T in $DES block if you use ADVAN6, 8, 9, or 13 and write you system in differential equations
Leonid


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On 1/18/2013 10:12 AM, Kaessner, Nele wrote:
Dear Ahmed and all,

First of all, thank you for your response.
The reason I believe that blood volume is altered is because I see an increase 
in concentrations until the end of hemodialysis, despite the fact that compound 
infusion ended two hours earlier. I would want to estimate the decreasing 
volume using information from both subjects with and without hemodialysis (for 
those without dialysis, concentrations drop as expected after the end of the 
infusion). Clearance via hemodialysis is not a problem by the way, compound is 
too big :-)
My problem mostly relates to the coding in NONMEM. How do I model a continuous 
change in V1 over time? $PK does not allow the variable 'T' to be used, and I 
don't just want to use TIME, as this would only consider time points actually 
contained in the data set.
Any suggestions?

Thank you and best regards
Nele
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Global Pharmacometrics
Experimental Medicine

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmed N Mohamed [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 3:28
To: Kaessner, Nele
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NMusers] how to model blood volume change during and after 
hemodialysis?

Hello,

In terms of how long it takes to restore blood volume, i think it should be 
immediate because they usually give fluids during the dialysis to replace lost 
blood volume. Otherwise, there will be a significant drop in BP. You may have 
the volumes of fluid given in the patient charts if you have that.

In terms of changing volume you can do that in two ways:
1. If you have serial measurements of patient body weight, you can link that to 
volume as a covariate and it will change with change in weight (time-varying 
covariate). But this needs hourly or even more frequent weight measurements.

2. You can model the change in volume with time using a simple linear slope 
model where volume decreases with time during dialysis and increases with time 
after dialysis and estimate the slope for each process. However, i think this 
will be difficult to estimate separate from changes in clearance and the slope 
estimates you get will just be arbitrary. If you have samples from dialysate, 
it might be better.

I hope this helps.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nele Kaessner" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 8:24:05 AM
Subject: [NMusers] how to model blood volume change during and after 
hemodialysis?




Dear nmusers,



I would like to model PK profiles of a compounds which mostly distributes in 
blood volume. The subjects which were investigated underwent hemodialysis for 
approx. the first three hours after infusion start, and the compound was given 
over a time period of ~5-10 min.

It is well known that during hemodialysis, blood volume changes. Therefore, I 
would like to add a dynamic component to the central volume parameter, allowing 
it to decrease during hemodialysis and then to reincrease after dialysis has 
ended. I have all information about start and end time of both dosing and 
dialysis. Individual times between subjects differed. Unfortunately, I have not 
been creative enough to come up with a NONMEM code that can do this. Could any 
of you help out?

Also, I probably do not have late enough time points to estimate when exactly 
blood volume would be restored. Does anyone know how much time the body needs 
after dialysis has ended until it is back to the original blood volume?



Thanks for your help and best

Nele

______________________________________________________________



Dr. Nele Käßner

Principal Scientist Modeling and Simulation

Global Pharmacometrics

Experimental Medicine



Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH

Thurgauerstrasse 130

8152 Glattpark-Opfikon (Zürich)

Switzerland



Visitor address:

Alpenstrasse 3

8152 Glattpark-Opfikon (Zürich)

Switzerland



Phone: (+41) 44 / 55 51 404

Mobile: (+41) 79 / 654 33 99



mailto: [email protected]

http://www.takeda.com

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