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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A fuzzy logic controller for intestinal levodopa infusion in Parkinson’s disease

Jiang, Xiaowen January 2010 (has links)
The aim of this work is to evaluate the fuzzy system for different types of patients for levodopa infusion in Parkinson Disease based on simulation experiments using the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic model. Fuzzy system is to control patient’s condition by adjusting the value of flow rate, and it must be effective on three types of patients, there are three different types of patients, including sensitive, typical and tolerant patient; the sensitive patients are very sensitive to drug dosage, but the tolerant patients are resistant to drug dose, so it is important for controller to deal with dose increment and decrement to adapt different types of patients, such as sensitive and tolerant patients. Using the fuzzy system, three different types of patients can get useful control for simulating medication treatment, and controller will get good effect for patients, when the initial flow rate of infusion is in the small range of the approximate optimal value for the current patient’ type.
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Long-Term Evolution Of Lipids In Thai HIV-Infected Patients On Treatment / Évolution à long terme des lipides chez des patients Thaïlandais infectés par le VIH sous traitement

Homkham, Nontiya 28 April 2016 (has links)
Le traitement par éfavirenz, un médicament antirétroviral, a été associé avec des changements de profil lipidique potentiellement défavorables. Ce travail a abordé la question de savoir si ces effets dépendent des concentrations plasmatiques d’éfavirenz et, dans ce cas, si sa posologie pourrait être optimisée sans perte d'efficacité.Un modèle de pharmacocinétique de population a été développé à partir de données d’enfants infectés par le VIH. La simulation d’une population normalisée sous éfavirenz aux posologies recommandées montre que 15 % des enfants auraient des concentrations insuffisantes 12 heures après la prise, ce qui serait associé à un risque de la réplication virale de 23 %.Pour décrire la relation entre taux plasmatiques d'éfavirenz et changements de taux de cholestérol, des modèles de pharmacocinétique-pharmacodynamique (PK-PD) de réponse indirecte ont été développés. Le modèle sélectionné prédit que les taux d’éfavirenz individuels sont associés à une augmentation des lipoprotéines de haute densité sur 5 ans, et des lipoprotéines de basse densité durant 4 mois avec un retour progressif aux valeurs de base.Pour évaluer l’impact des concentrations d'éfavirenz sur l'efficacité, un modèle dynamique PK-PD a décrit la relation entre ces concentrations et l’évolution de la charge virale VIH et du taux de CD4. Un score d’efficacité a été développé sur la base d’hypothèses pharmacodynamiques pour prédire le risque de la réplication virale.L’utilisation de l’éfavirenz aux posologiques recommandées par la Food and Drug Administration aux Etats-Unis semble assurer une efficacité optimale et des changements potentiellement favorables dans les fractions de cholestérol. / As other antiretroviral drugs, treatment with efavirenz has been associated with potentially unfavorable lipid profile changes in adults and in children. The thesis addressed the question of whether these changes depend on efavirenz plasma concentrations and if dose adjustments could be envisioned without loss of efficacy.To estimate individual efavirenz exposure over 24 hours, a population pharmacokinetic model was developed using data from HIV infected children. Simulations for a normalized population receiving efavirenz dosed according recommendations predicted that 15% of children would have insufficient mid dose concentrations, associated with a 23% risk of viral replication.To describe the relationship between efavirenz concentrations and cholesterol changes, population pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) indirect response models were developed. The selected model predicted that individual efavirenz concentrations were associated with an increase in high-density lipoprotein concentrations over 5 years but with an increase in low-density lipoprotein concentrations only during the first 4 months of treatment followed by a gradual return to baseline.To study the importance of efavirenz concentrations with regard to efficacy, a PK-PD dynamics model was developed to describe the relationship between concentrations and HIV RNA load and CD4 cell count evolutions. A score was defined based on a pharmacodynamic hypothesis to predict the risk of viral replication.Using US Food and Drug Administration dosing recommendations in children ensure optimal efficacy and potentially favorable changes in cholesterol fractions.

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