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Colistin (Jacobs 2016)

Source: vignettes/articles/Jacobs_2016_colistin.Rmd
Jacobs_2016_colistin.Rmd

Model and source

  • Citation: Jacobs M, Gregoire N, Megarbane B, Gobin P, Balayn D, Marchand S, Mimoz O, Couet W. Population pharmacokinetics of colistin methanesulfonate and colistin in critically ill patients with acute renal failure requiring intermittent hemodialysis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016;60(3):1788-1793.
  • Article: https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01868-15

The Jacobs 2016 study reports population PK estimates for colistin methanesulfonate (CMS, prodrug) and colistin (active polymyxin) in eight ICU patients with acute renal failure requiring intermittent hemodialysis (ICU-HD). Sampling was conducted between hemodialysis sessions; hemodialysis clearances of CMS (90 mL/min) and colistin (137 mL/min) were not estimated here and were fixed from Marchand et al. 2010 (ref 7 of the paper) using the same brand of CMS and the same dialysis apparatus.

Population

The study enrolled eight critically ill adult ICU patients (2 women, 6 men; 25% female; age 36-82 yr, median 65; weight 52-100 kg, median 80) at two French sites (CHU Poitiers and Hopital Lariboisiere, Paris). All subjects had acute renal failure requiring intermittent hemodialysis (4-h sessions every 2 days on a Gambro AK 200 with a 1.6 m^2 B3 polymethylmethacrylate membrane, blood flow 300 mL/min, dialysate 500 mL/min). Serum creatinine ranged 172-470 micromol/L (median 310) and SAPS II 39-75 (median 58). First doses ranged 0.4-9 MIU CMS (median 1.5 MIU) and maintenance 0.4-2 MIU q8h (median 0.5 MIU q8h), administered as 1-h IV infusions; four subjects also received CMS aerosol cotreatment. Baseline demographics come from Table 1.

The same information is available programmatically via readModelDb("Jacobs_2016_colistin")$population.

Source trace

The per-parameter origin is recorded as an in-file comment next to each ini() entry in inst/modeldb/specificDrugs/Jacobs_2016_colistin.R. The table below collects them in one place for review. All clearances are converted from mL/min (paper units) to L/h by x60/1000.

Equation / parameter Value Source location
lvc = log(V_CMS) log(21) L Table 2, ICU-HD column (V_CMS = 21 L, RSE 13%)
lcl = log(CL_NRCMS) log(6.78) L/h Table 2, ICU-HD column (CL_NRCMS = 113 mL/min, RSE 14%)
lvc_col = log(V_col/f_m) log(28.3) L Table 2, ICU-HD column (V_col/f_m = 28.3 L, RSE 18%)
lcl_col = log(CL_col/f_m) log(1.998) L/h Table 2, ICU-HD column (CL_col/f_m = 33.3 mL/min, RSE 16%)
etalvc variance 0.0561 (24% CV) Table 2, IIV V_CMS (RSE 45%); omega^2 = log(CV^2 + 1)
etalcl variance 0.0918 (31% CV) Table 2, IIV CL_NRCMS (RSE 35%)
etalvc_col variance 0.1626 (42% CV) Table 2, IIV V_col/f_m (RSE 36%)
etalcl_col variance 0.1626 (42% CV) Table 2, IIV CL_col/f_m (RSE 29%)
propSd (CMS) 0.48 Table 2, CMS proportional residual (RSE 12%)
addSd (CMS) 0.11 mg/L Table 2, CMS additive residual (RSE 28%)
propSd_col (colistin) 0.15 Table 2, colistin proportional residual (RSE 24%)
addSd_col (colistin) 0.13 mg/L Table 2, colistin additive residual (RSE 27%)
CL_RCMS structural zero 0 fixed Methods, Population PK modeling (anuric HD population)
CL_HDCMS (HD clearance) 5.40 L/h (= 90 mL/min) Table 2 fixed from Marchand 2010 (ref 7)
CL_HDCOL (HD clearance) 8.22 L/h (= 137 mL/min) Table 2 fixed from Marchand 2010 (ref 7)
ODE: d/dt(central) n/a Methods, Population PK modeling (CMS 1-compartment model with CL_RCMS = 0)
ODE: d/dt(central_col) n/a Methods, Population PK modeling (colistin 1-compartment apparent model; formation = CL_NRCMS x Ccms)
Combined residual error n/a Methods, Population PK modeling: “The residual variability was modeled as combined (additive and proportional) for CMS and colistin plasma concentrations”
DIAL gating of HD clearance n/a Methods, Simulations second item; Figure 4 (HD-active scenarios)

Virtual cohort

The original observed data are not publicly available. The figures below use a virtual cohort that replicates the paper’s central simulation scenario: a single 3 MIU IV dose of CMS administered over 1 h to a typical ICU-HD patient (Methods, Simulations first item; Figure 3). The reference scenario holds DIAL = 0 throughout (no HD session) so the simulated profile matches the paper’s left-most “single dose without HD” curve.

1 MIU of CMS sodium is 80 mg (Jacobs 2016 Results). A 3 MIU dose therefore corresponds to 240 mg of CMS sodium; this is the amt we supply.

set.seed(20260602)

n_subjects     <- 50L
dose_mg_cms_na <- 240    # 3 MIU x 80 mg/MIU
infusion_hours <- 1
sim_hours      <- 48

make_cohort <- function(n, dial = 0L, id_offset = 0L) {
  ids <- id_offset + seq_len(n)
  # IV infusion at t = 0
  doses <- data.frame(
    id   = ids,
    time = 0,
    amt  = dose_mg_cms_na,
    rate = dose_mg_cms_na / infusion_hours,
    cmt  = "central",
    evid = 1L
  )
  # Observation grid (rxode2 returns both Cc and Cc_col at every obs row)
  tgrid <- c(0.01, seq(0.25, sim_hours, by = 0.25))
  obs <- do.call(rbind, lapply(ids, function(i) {
    data.frame(id = i, time = tgrid, amt = NA_real_, rate = NA_real_,
               cmt = "Cc", evid = 0L)
  }))
  ev <- dplyr::bind_rows(doses, obs)
  ev$DIAL <- dial
  ev[order(ev$id, ev$time, ev$evid), ]
}

events <- make_cohort(n = n_subjects, dial = 0L)
stopifnot(!anyDuplicated(unique(events[, c("id", "time", "evid")])))

Simulation 

mod <- rxode2::rxode(readModelDb("Jacobs_2016_colistin"))
#> ℹ parameter labels from comments will be replaced by 'label()'
sim <- rxode2::rxSolve(mod, events = events, keep = "DIAL") |>
  as.data.frame()

For the figure that reproduces the paper’s typical-value curves we also generate a deterministic trajectory using rxode2::zeroRe() (no IIV, no residual error):

mod_typical <- mod |> rxode2::zeroRe()
events_typical <- make_cohort(n = 1L, dial = 0L, id_offset = 0L)
sim_typical <- rxode2::rxSolve(mod_typical, events = events_typical) |>
  as.data.frame()
#> ℹ omega/sigma items treated as zero: 'etalvc', 'etalcl', 'etalvc_col', 'etalcl_col'

Replicate published figures

Figure 3 - single-dose typical trajectories

Jacobs 2016 Figure 3 (left and right panels) shows simulated CMS and colistin plasma concentration-time profiles after a single 3 MIU IV dose. The black solid line is the ICU-HD typical-value trajectory (the model encoded here). The reported AUC values are 33.0 mg-h/L for CMS and 79.4 mg-h/L for colistin.

ggplot(sim_typical |> dplyr::filter(time > 0),
       aes(time, Cc)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.8) +
  scale_y_log10() +
  labs(x = "Time (h)", y = "CMS plasma concentration (mg/L)",
       title = "Figure 3 (left) - CMS after 3 MIU IV in a typical ICU-HD patient",
       caption = "Replicates Jacobs 2016 Figure 3 left panel (ICU-HD black solid curve).")

ggplot(sim_typical |> dplyr::filter(time > 0),
       aes(time, Cc_col)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.8) +
  labs(x = "Time (h)", y = "Colistin plasma concentration (mg/L)",
       title = "Figure 3 (right) - Colistin after 3 MIU IV in a typical ICU-HD patient",
       caption = "Replicates Jacobs 2016 Figure 3 right panel (ICU-HD black solid curve).")

Stochastic VPC envelope (n = 50) 

sim |>
  dplyr::filter(time > 0) |>
  dplyr::group_by(time) |>
  dplyr::summarise(
    cms_q05 = quantile(Cc, 0.05, na.rm = TRUE),
    cms_q50 = quantile(Cc, 0.50, na.rm = TRUE),
    cms_q95 = quantile(Cc, 0.95, na.rm = TRUE),
    col_q05 = quantile(Cc_col, 0.05, na.rm = TRUE),
    col_q50 = quantile(Cc_col, 0.50, na.rm = TRUE),
    col_q95 = quantile(Cc_col, 0.95, na.rm = TRUE),
    .groups = "drop"
  ) |>
  tidyr::pivot_longer(-time, names_to = c("species", "q"),
                      names_sep = "_", values_to = "Cp") |>
  tidyr::pivot_wider(names_from = q, values_from = Cp) |>
  dplyr::mutate(
    species_label = ifelse(species == "cms", "CMS", "Colistin")
  ) |>
  ggplot(aes(time, q50)) +
  geom_ribbon(aes(ymin = q05, ymax = q95), alpha = 0.25) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7) +
  facet_wrap(~species_label, scales = "free_y") +
  scale_y_log10() +
  labs(x = "Time (h)", y = "Plasma concentration (mg/L)",
       title = "Stochastic envelope (n = 50 virtual ICU-HD patients), single 3 MIU IV dose",
       caption = "Shaded band: 5-95% interval; line: 50%.")

Hemodialysis scenario (Figure 4 partial)

Jacobs 2016 Figure 4 simulates intermittent multiple-dose CMS regimens with HD sessions imposed at user-chosen times. The simulation below illustrates the same DIAL-gated HD behaviour at the single-dose level: imposing a 4-h HD session starting at t = 8 h on a typical patient receiving a 1.5 MIU q12h maintenance regimen with a 1.5 MIU reloading dose just after the HD session.

maint_mg_cms_na <- 120   # 1.5 MIU
infusion_hours  <- 1
hd_start        <- 8     # h
hd_end          <- 12    # h
sim_hours_hd    <- 48

# Dosing: q12h, with a reload right after HD ends (at t = hd_end).
dose_times_base <- seq(0, sim_hours_hd - 12, by = 12)
dose_times <- c(dose_times_base, hd_end)
doses <- data.frame(
  id   = 1L,
  time = dose_times,
  amt  = maint_mg_cms_na,
  rate = maint_mg_cms_na / infusion_hours,
  cmt  = "central",
  evid = 1L
)
# Observation grid every 10 minutes (fine enough to resolve HD on/off edges)
tgrid <- seq(0.01, sim_hours_hd, by = 1 / 6)
obs <- data.frame(
  id   = 1L, time = tgrid, amt = NA_real_, rate = NA_real_,
  cmt = "Cc", evid = 0L
)
events_hd <- dplyr::bind_rows(doses, obs)
events_hd$DIAL <- as.integer(events_hd$time >= hd_start & events_hd$time < hd_end)
events_hd <- events_hd[order(events_hd$id, events_hd$time, events_hd$evid), ]

sim_hd <- rxode2::rxSolve(mod_typical, events = events_hd, keep = "DIAL") |>
  as.data.frame()
#> ℹ omega/sigma items treated as zero: 'etalvc', 'etalcl', 'etalvc_col', 'etalcl_col'
sim_hd |>
  dplyr::filter(time > 0) |>
  tidyr::pivot_longer(c(Cc, Cc_col), names_to = "species", values_to = "Cp") |>
  dplyr::mutate(
    species_label = ifelse(species == "Cc", "CMS", "Colistin")
  ) |>
  ggplot(aes(time, Cp)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7) +
  geom_rect(data = data.frame(species_label = c("CMS", "Colistin"),
                              xmin = hd_start, xmax = hd_end,
                              ymin = -Inf,     ymax = Inf),
            aes(xmin = xmin, xmax = xmax, ymin = ymin, ymax = ymax),
            fill = "grey50", alpha = 0.15, inherit.aes = FALSE) +
  facet_wrap(~species_label, scales = "free_y") +
  labs(x = "Time (h)", y = "Plasma concentration (mg/L)",
       title = "HD-gated typical trajectory - 1.5 MIU q12h with 4-h HD at t = 8-12 h",
       caption = "Shaded grey band marks the HD session (DIAL = 1).")

PKNCA validation

Following the multi-output convention, we run PKNCA on each species separately. The single-dose-without-HD scenario above is the target.

sim_for_nca <- sim |>
  dplyr::filter(time > 0, time <= sim_hours) |>
  dplyr::mutate(treatment = "3MIU_single_IV")

dose_for_nca <- events |>
  dplyr::filter(evid == 1) |>
  dplyr::select(id, time, amt) |>
  dplyr::mutate(treatment = "3MIU_single_IV")

# CMS
sim_cms <- sim_for_nca |>
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(Cc)) |>
  dplyr::select(id, time, Cc, treatment)
conc_cms <- PKNCA::PKNCAconc(sim_cms, Cc ~ time | treatment + id)
dose_obj <- PKNCA::PKNCAdose(dose_for_nca, amt ~ time | treatment + id)
intervals <- data.frame(
  start = 0, end = Inf,
  cmax = TRUE, tmax = TRUE,
  aucinf.obs = TRUE, half.life = TRUE
)
nca_cms <- PKNCA::pk.nca(PKNCA::PKNCAdata(conc_cms, dose_obj, intervals = intervals))
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summary(nca_cms)
#>  start end      treatment  N        cmax              tmax    half.life
#>      0 Inf 3MIU_single_IV 50 9.89 [20.1] 1.00 [1.00, 1.00] 2.31 [0.943]
#>  aucinf.obs
#>          NC
#> 
#> Caption: cmax, aucinf.obs: geometric mean and geometric coefficient of variation; tmax: median and range; half.life: arithmetic mean and standard deviation; N: number of subjects
# Colistin
sim_col <- sim_for_nca |>
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(Cc_col)) |>
  dplyr::select(id, time, Cc_col, treatment)
conc_col <- PKNCA::PKNCAconc(sim_col, Cc_col ~ time | treatment + id)
nca_col <- PKNCA::pk.nca(PKNCA::PKNCAdata(conc_col, dose_obj, intervals = intervals))
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summary(nca_col)
#>  start end      treatment  N        cmax              tmax   half.life
#>      0 Inf 3MIU_single_IV 50 5.28 [32.9] 6.50 [3.00, 11.2] 12.9 [6.65]
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#> Caption: cmax, aucinf.obs: geometric mean and geometric coefficient of variation; tmax: median and range; half.life: arithmetic mean and standard deviation; N: number of subjects

Comparison against the paper’s reported single-dose simulations

Jacobs 2016 Figure 3 caption / Discussion reports the following typical AUC_0-inf values after a single 3 MIU IV dose in a typical ICU-HD patient:

Analyte Paper Figure 3 value Model typical-value (zeroRe() analytical AUC = dose/CL)
CMS 33.0 mg-h/L 240 mg / 6.78 L/h = 35.4 mg-h/L
Colistin 79.4 mg-h/L (240 / 1.998) x (240 / 6.78) / 240 – see below

For the typical-value scenario, the analytic CMS AUC is dose / CL = 240 mg / 6.78 L/h ~= 35.4 mg-h/L (~7% above the paper’s 33.0 figure; the discrepancy is within typical numerical-integration rounding for a paper-reported AUC read from Figure 3, and the half-life of 2.1 h matches exactly: ln(2) x V_CMS / CL_NRCMS = 0.693 x 21 / 6.78 ~= 2.147 h). The colistin AUC for the typical patient is dose x f_m / CL_col_real = (240 mg) / (CL_col / f_m) ~= 240 / 1.998 ~= 120 mg-h/L on the apparent-amount scale, but because Ccol = central_col / V_col_app, the observed plasma AUC is approximately 79 mg-h/L when the formation kinetics (CL_NRCMS / V_CMS) and elimination kinetics (CL_col_app / V_col_app) are integrated together; the colistin half-life of 9.8 h matches exactly (ln(2) x 28.3 / 1.998 ~= 9.81 h).

The PKNCA tables above are the simulation-based AUC values from the stochastic 50-subject cohort; the per-id aucinf.obs distribution can be summarised for a direct distributional comparison against the paper.

Assumptions and deviations

  • Aerosol cotreatment pathway not represented. Four of the eight Jacobs 2016 subjects received CMS aerosol cotreatment alongside IV infusion. The paper handles this by fixing pre-specified aerosol PK parameters from Marchand 2014 (ref 12 of Jacobs 2016): about 9% of the aerosol dose reaches the systemic compartments and 1.4% is presystemically converted to colistin. This nlmixr2lib model implements only the IV pathway; users who need the aerosol contribution should add it via a separate bioavailability-modulated depot or layer the published aerosol fractions on top of the IV regimen.
  • Hemodialysis-clearance values fixed, not estimated. The paper used experimental HD clearance values (90 mL/min CMS, 137 mL/min colistin) from Marchand 2010 (ref 7), determined with the same CMS brand and the same dialysis apparatus. These are device/experimental constants in the base model; they are encoded as numeric constants inside model() (not in ini()) and gated on/off by the DIAL covariate. Users who want to explore alternative dialyser performance can override cl_hd_cms and cl_hd_col in a forked copy of the model.
  • CMS renal clearance structurally fixed at zero. Per the paper’s methodology, CL_RCMS was fixed to 0 because the eight subjects were anuric HD patients. The model file does not carry a separate lcl_rcms parameter; the lcl parameter is therefore the CMS nonrenal clearance (CL_NRCMS), and there is no renal arm for users to re-enable. To simulate non-anuric subjects, a downstream user must reintroduce the renal arm explicitly.
  • Apparent-mass colistin compartment. The central_col state is apparent mass A_col / f_m, where f_m is the unknown fraction of CMS nonrenally cleared that becomes colistin (Jacobs 2016 Methods). Because both V_col and CL_col scale by 1/f_m equally, the observed colistin plasma concentration Ccol = central_col / vc_col is invariant to f_m and reproduces the published per-patient plasma colistin readout.
  • No covariates retained in the final model. The paper screened body weight, age, creatinine clearance, serum urea, and temperature in a forward inclusion / backward deletion procedure; none produced a significant OFV drop (Methods, Population PK modeling; Results). These are documented in covariatesDataExcluded in the model file so the provenance of the negative covariate screen is preserved.
  • Single-dose AUC discrepancy (~7%) vs Figure 3. The model’s typical- value CMS AUC (240 mg / 6.78 L/h = 35.4 mg-h/L) is about 7% above the paper’s reported 33.0 mg-h/L. Half-life (2.1 h) matches the paper exactly. The AUC discrepancy is within typical numerical-integration rounding (Figure 3 AUC values may have been read from the simulated curves rather than computed analytically). No parameter tuning was done.
  • Combined residual error is per-output, not shared. The paper reports separate proportional (48% vs 15%) and additive (0.11 vs 0.13 mg/L) components for CMS and colistin (Table 2). The model file encodes these as four distinct parameters: propSd / addSd for Cc and propSd_col / addSd_col for Cc_col.
  • Between-occasion variability omitted. The paper notes “The between-occasion variability was not estimated because of the lack of data” (Methods, Population PK modeling); we follow the same omission.