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The effects of ketoconazole and cimetidine on the pharmacokinetics of oral tramadol in greyhound dogs.
Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2017 December
Tramadol is administered to dogs for analgesia but has variability in its extent of absorption, which may hinder its efficacy. Additionally, the active opioid metabolite (M1) occurs in low concentrations. The purpose of this study was to determine if administration of oral tramadol with suspected metabolism inhibitors (ketoconazole, cimetidine) would lead to improved bioavailability of tramadol and M1. Six healthy Greyhounds were included. They were administered tramadol orally and intravenously, M1 intravenously, oral tramadol with oral ketoconazole and oral tramadol with oral cimetidine. Oral tramadol bioavailability was low (2.6%). Ketoconazole and cimetidine significantly increased tramadol bioavailability to 18.2% and 20.3%, respectively. The mean maximum plasma concentration of tramadol alone was 22.9 ng/ml, and increased to 109.9 and 143.2 μg/ml with ketoconazole and cimetidine, respectively. However, measured tramadol plasma concentrations were below the minimum concentration considered effective in humans (228 μg/ml). In all treatment groups, measured M1 concentrations (<7 μg/ml) were below concentrations associated with efficacy in humans. To conclude, tramadol and M1 concentrations were low and variable in dogs after oral dosing of tramadol, even in combination with cimetidine or ketoconazole, but effective concentrations in dogs have not been defined.
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