Bosentan

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Bosentan
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Clinical data
Trade names Tracleer, Stayveer, Safebo
AHFS/Drugs.com Monograph
MedlinePlus a605001
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Pregnancy
category
  • AU:X (High risk)
Routes of
administration 		By mouth
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Legal status
  • AU: S4 (Prescription only) [1]
  • UK: POM (Prescription only) [2]
  • US: WARNING [3] Rx-only [4]
  • EU:Rx-only [5]
  • In general: ℞ (Prescription only)
Pharmacokinetic data
Bioavailability 50%
Protein binding >98%
Metabolism Liver
Elimination half-life 5 hours
Identifiers
  • 4-tert-butyl-N-[6-(2-hydroxyethoxy)-5-(2-methoxyphenoxy)-2-(pyrimidin-2-yl)pyrimidin-4-yl]benzene-1-sulfonamide
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Chemical and physical data
Formula C27H29N5O6S
Molar mass 551.62 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)
  • CC(C)(C)c1ccc(cc1)S(=O)(=O)Nc2c(c(nc(n2)c3ncccn3)OCCO)Oc4ccccc4OC
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Bosentan, sold under the brand name Tracleer among others, is a dual endothelin receptor antagonist medication used in the treatment of pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH). [4] [5]

Contents

Bosentan is available as film-coated tablets (62.5 mg or 125 mg) or as dispersable tablets for oral suspension (32 mg). [4]

Medical uses

Bosentan is used to treat people with moderate pulmonary arterial hypertension and to reduce the number of digital ulcers — open wounds on especially on fingertips and less commonly the knuckles — in people with systemic scleroderma. [4] [2] [6]

Contraindications

Bosentan is contraindicated in people taking glyburide due to an increased risk of increased liver enzymes and liver damage when these two agents are taken together. [4]

Use of bosentan with cyclosporine is contraindicated because cyclosporine A has been shown to markedly increase serum concentration of bosentan. [4]

Adverse effects

Bosentan causes harm to fetuses (teratogenic) and it may render hormonal contraceptives ineffective. [4] [2]

In the US it is only available from doctors who follow an FDA-mandated risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) with respect to risks to fetuses and its risks of causing liver damage. [7]

In addition to the risk of causing birth defects and of causing liver damage, bosentan has a high risk of causing edema, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, decreasing sperm counts, and decreases in hemoglobin and hematocrit. [4] [2]

Very common adverse effects (occurring in more than 10% of people) include headache, elevated transaminases, and edema. Common adverse effects (between 1% and 10% of people) include anemia, reduced hemoglobin, hypersensitivity reactions, skin inflammation, itchiness, rashes, red skin, flushing, fainting, heart palpitations, low blood pressure, nasal congestion, gastro-esophageal reflux disease, and diarrhea. [4] [2]

Drug interactions

Bosentan may render hormonal contraceptives ineffective. [4] [2]

Mechanism of action

Bosentan is a competitive antagonist of endothelin-1 at the endothelin-A (ET-A) and endothelin-B (ET-B) receptors. Under normal conditions, endothelin-1 binding of ET-A receptors causes constriction of the pulmonary blood vessels. [8] Conversely, binding of endothelin-1 to ET-B receptors has been associated with both vasodilation and vasoconstriction of vascular smooth muscle, depending on the ET-B subtype (ET-B1 or ET-B2) and tissue. [9] Bosentan blocks both ET-A and ET-B receptors, but is thought to exert a greater effect on ET-A receptors, causing a total decrease in pulmonary vascular resistance. [4]

Pharmacokinetics

After oral administration, maximum plasma concentrations of bosentan are attained within 3–5 hours and the terminal elimination half-life (t1/2) is about 5 hours in healthy adult subjects. The exposure to bosentan after intervenous and oral administration is about 2-fold greater in adult patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension than in healthy adult subjects. [10]

Absolute bioavailability of bosentan is about 50% in healthy subjects. [11] Peak plasma concentration of bosentan with the dispersable tablets for oral suspension is 14% less on average compared to peak concentration of the oral tablets. [4]

Bosentan is a substrate of CYP3A4 and CYP2C9. CYP2C19 may also play a role in its metabolism. [4] It is also a substrate of the hepatic uptake transporter organic anion-transporting polypeptides (OATPs) OATP1B1, OATP1B3, and OATP2B1. [12] [13]

Elimination of bosentan is mostly hepatic, with minimal contribution from renal and fecal excretion. [14]

Use of bosentan with cyclosporine is contraindicated because cyclosporine A has been shown to markedly increase serum concentration of bosentan. [4]

History

Bosentan was studied in heart failure in a trial called REACH-1 that was terminated early in 1997, due to toxicity at the dose that was being studied. [15]

It was approved for pulmonary artery hypertension in the US in November 2001, [4] [16] and in the European Union in May 2002. [2] [5]

Society and culture

Economics

By 2013, worldwide sales of bosentan were $1.57 billion. The patents on bosentan started expiring in 2015. [17]

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References

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