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. 2019 May 3;14:96. doi: 10.1186/s13023-019-1077-6

Table 5.

Summary of previous reports on mTOR inhibitor dosing in neonates

mTOR inhibitor AAO of mTOR inhibitor Dosing regimen Dose [mg/m2/d] Trough levels [ng/ml] Duration AE Prophylaxis Reference
EVE NA 0.25 mg twice per day
2 days per week
NA 5–15 2.5 months Increase of TG
Self-limiting diarrhea
Decreased CD/CD8 ratio lymphopenia
TMP/SMX (Demir et al. 2012)
Sirolimus 10 days 0.4 mg daily NA NA 24 days Increase of TG TMP/SMX (Breathnach et al. 2014)
EVE 20 days 0.1 mg daily 0.64 11 34 days Transient hypokalemia NA (Mohamed et al. 2014)
EVE 2 days 0.25 mg twice per day
2 days per week
NA 3.6–7.8 3 months NA NA (Dogan et al. 2015)
EVE 4 days 0.1 mg daily 0.64 11.5 42 days NA NA (Goyer et al. 2015)
EVE 9 days 0.1 mg daily 0.64 10.2 NA NA NA
EVE 21 days NA 3 4–5 NA Hyponatremia antibiotic
prophylaxis
(Mlczoch et al. 2015)
EVE NA 0.25 mg twice per day
2 days per week
NA NA 4 weeks NA NA (Oztunc et al. 2015)
EVE 2 days 0.15–0.2 mg daily 1 10–15 19 days Toxic levels of 108 ng/ml under initial dose of 0.4–0.45 mg (=1.5-2 mg/m2) NA (Wagner et al. 2015)
EVE 7 days 0.25 mg daily 1 NA 10 weeks Mild mucositis
Increase of TG
NA (Colaneri et al. 2016)
EVE NA 0.25 mg twice per day
2 days per week
NA 5–10 NA NA NA (Emir et al. 2017)
EVE NA 0.5 mg daily NA NA NA NA NA (Hoshal et al. 2016)
EVE 20 days 0.1 mg daily NA 13.7 34 days Suspected infection NA (Aw et al. 2017)
EVE 4 days NA NA 11 42 days None NA
EVE 9 days 0.1 mg daily NA 10.2 NA Oral ulcers NA
EVE 1 day 0.1 mg daily NA 10.2 36 days None NA
EVE NA 0.03125 mg daily 0.12 3–7 2 weeks Adenovirus pneumonia
High trough levels of 20 ng/ml under 0.125 mg (0.0558 mg/m2)
NA (Chang et al. 2017)
EVE NA NA 0.35 1.81 NA NA NA
EVE NA 0.125 mg daily 0.51 NA Na NA NA

AAO age at onset, AE adverse events, EVE everolimus, NA not available, TG triglycerides, TMP/SMX trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole