- PMID: 6138595 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(83)90981-9
Abstract
To compare the penetrability of methylprednisolone into lung tissue with that of prednisone, blood and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid levels of methylprednisolone and prednisone were measured in 17 patients with a variety of lung diseases. To correct for variations in the quantity of lung fluid obtained by BAL, steroid levels were expressed in relation to creatinine concentrations. The level of methylprednisolone penetration in the pulmonary parenchyma, expressed by the slope of the relation between blood and BAL fluid, was 0.5 (r = 0.8; p less than 0.03). By contrast, despite serum levels of between 59 and 219 ng/ml, prednisone could not be detected in the BAL fluid in 3 patients; the overall correlation between blood and BAL fluid for all patients was r = 0.5 (slope = 0.3; p less than 0.1). Thus methylprednisolone is better able than prednisone to penetrate lung acini.
Keywords: Absorption
Adult
Aged
Anti-Inflammatory Agents / blood
Anti-Inflammatory Agents / therapeutic use
Female
Humans
Inflammation / drug therapy
Inflammation / metabolism
Lung / metabolism*
Lung Diseases / drug therapy
Lung Diseases / metabolism
Male
Methylprednisolone / blood
Methylprednisolone / metabolism*
Middle Aged
Prednisone / blood
Prednisone / metabolism*
Pulmonary Alveoli / metabolism
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33517482/
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