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The pharmacokinetics of the antiarrhythmic disopyramide, 4-diisopropylamino-2-phenyl-2-(2-pyridyl)butyramide phosphate, and its monodealkylated metabolite were investigated in seven volunteers after intravenous (1 and 2 mg/kg) and oral (3 and 6 mg/kg) administration. Unchanged drug (52%) and the monodealkylated metabolite (25%) were renally excreted on intravenous administration. The pharmacokinetics of disopyramide were first order and dose independent only when referenced to the drug not bound to plasma proteins since this binding was dose dependent. The apparent half-lives of the α and β phases on intravenous administration were 2 min and 4.5 hr, respectively. The apparent volumes of distribution of the central and peripheral compartments, referenced to unbound disopyramide in the plasma, were 9 and 80 liters, respectively. The half-life of absorption of oral aqueous disopyramide phosphate was 30 min with a lag time of 16 min and an apparent first-pass metabolism of 16% of the absorbed dose, consistent with the hepatic efficiency of 14%. The renal and metabolic clearances were 125 and 111 ml/min, respectively. Graphical and computer analysis of the plasma and urine data showed dose-independent first-order pharmacokinetics of plasma unbound drug in a two-compartment-body model to give two metabolites and a first-pass transformation of a fraction of the oral dose. The absorption efficiency of unchanged drug was 83%.
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Supported in part by Grant No. NIH-RR-82 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and by an unrestricted grant from Searle Laboratories, Skokie, Illinois.
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Hinderling, P.H., Garrett, E.R. Pharmacokinetics of the antiarrhythmic disopyramide in healthy humans. Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics 4, 199–230 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063614
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