Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate potential systemic pharmacokinetic interactions between intranasal fluticasone furoate (FF) and levocabastine (LEVO) when delivered simultaneously via a metered atomizing spray pump.
Methods: This was a randomized, open-label, crossover study. Healthy male and female subjects (n = 30) received once-daily repeat doses of FF/LEVO (100/200 μg) as a fixed-dose combination (FDC), FF (110 μg), or LEVO (200 μg) for 7 days. FF and LEVO plasma pharmacokinetics (0-24 hours) were measured on day 7, with safety assessments over the study duration.
Results: Systemic exposure to LEVO was similar when administered as FF/LEVO FDC or LEVO alone. Following FF/LEVO FDC or FF alone, the majority (>99%) of FF concentrations were nonquantifiable, that is, below the lower limit of quantification of 10 pg/mL. All treatments were well tolerated, and adverse event incidence was similar across the treatment groups.
Conclusions: These results suggest that in healthy subjects, for LEVO, there is no pharmacokinetic interaction with FF when delivered as FF/LEVO FDC. As the majority of data were below the assay sensitivity for FF, any potential differences in the bioavailability of FF when delivered alone or as FF/LEVO FDC could not be established. There was no clinically relevant impact on safety/tolerability when FF/LEVO was coadministered.
Keywords: combination therapy; fluticasone furoate; intranasal; levocabastine; pharmacokinetics.
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