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title: "Abacavir (Zhao 2012)"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
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```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>")
library(nlmixr2lib)
library(PKNCA)
library(rxode2)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)
```

# Model and source

* Citation: `r rxode2::rxode2(readModelDb("Zhao_2012_abacavir"))$reference`
* Description: `r rxode2::rxode2(readModelDb("Zhao_2012_abacavir"))$description`
* Article: <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2125.2011.04121.x>

# Population

Zhao 2012 reports a population PK analysis of oral abacavir in
23 HIV type-1 infected infants and toddlers (12 male, 11 female;
age 0.43-2.89 years, mean 1.8 years; weight 7.4-15.9 kg, mean
11.6 kg, median 12 kg) enrolled in the open-label PENTA 15
crossover study. Each child received abacavir 8 mg/kg twice daily
(weeks 0-4) and then crossed over to abacavir 16 mg/kg once daily
(weeks 4-8), with intensive plasma PK sampling at steady state in
each phase. The cohort spanned France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and
the United Kingdom. 347 plasma concentrations were available for
modelling; 13.5% were below the lower limit of quantification
(LLQ 0.015 mg/L) and were imputed at LLQ/2. The covariate screen
tested age, sex, weight, height, body mass index, serum
creatinine, and dose frequency; only weight on CL/F was retained
in the final model (paper Tables 1-3).

The same information is available programmatically:
`readModelDb("Zhao_2012_abacavir")$population` after the model
is loaded.

# Source trace

Per-parameter origin (also recorded as in-file comments next to
each `ini()` entry of
`inst/modeldb/specificDrugs/Zhao_2012_abacavir.R`):

| Equation / parameter | Value | Source location |
|----------------------|-------|-----------------|
| `lka`                | log(0.758) | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (Ka = 0.758 1/h) |
| `lcl`                | log(13.4)  | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (theta_4 = 13.4 L/h at 12 kg) |
| `lvc`                | log(4.94)  | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (V1/F = 4.94 L) |
| `lvp`                | log(8.12)  | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (V2/F = 8.12 L) |
| `lq`                 | log(1.25)  | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (Q/F = 1.25 L/h) |
| `e_wt_cl`            | 1.14       | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (theta_5 = 1.14; estimated PWR exponent on WT for CL/F) |
| Reference WT (12 kg) | n/a        | Zhao 2012 Results (cohort median used as the WT reference for the power model) |
| `etalcl`             | 0.03884    | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (IIV CL/F = 19.9% CV; omega^2 = log(1 + 0.199^2)) |
| `etalvp`             | 0.14977    | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (IIV V2/F = 40.2% CV; omega^2 = log(1 + 0.402^2)) |
| `etalq`              | 0.09120    | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (IIV Q/F = 30.9% CV; omega^2 = log(1 + 0.309^2)) |
| `etaiov_cl_1`        | 0.04559    | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (IOV CL/F = 21.6% CV; omega^2 = log(1 + 0.216^2)); occasion-1 estimate |
| `etaiov_cl_2`        | fix(0.04559) | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (IOV CL/F shared variance across occasions; NONMEM `$OMEGA BLOCK(1) SAME` translation) |
| `propSd`             | 0.141      | Zhao 2012 Table 3 (residual proportional = 14.1%) |
| `d/dt(depot)`, `d/dt(central)`, `d/dt(peripheral1)` | n/a | Zhao 2012 Methods (two-compartment with first-order oral absorption and first-order elimination) |
| `Cc <- central / vc` | n/a        | Standard linear-CL parameterisation; dose mg, volume L -> mg/L = ug/mL |
| `Cc ~ prop(propSd)`  | n/a        | Zhao 2012 Results ("Residual variability was best described by a proportional model") |

# Virtual cohort

The virtual cohort below reproduces the PENTA 15 crossover at the
cohort-median weight of 12 kg: each of 60 simulated subjects
receives five 8 mg/kg = 96 mg BID doses (occasion 1, `OCC = 1`)
followed - after a 28 day washout - by five 16 mg/kg = 192 mg
QD doses (occasion 2, `OCC = 2`). PK sampling mirrors the source
paper's intensive design: T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T6, T8, T12 in the
BID phase and T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T6, T8, T12, T24 in the QD
phase, drawn around the fifth (terminal) dose of each phase to
approximate steady state. 60 subjects is more than the 23 in the
trial; the over-sample lets the simulated 5-95% prediction
interval converge cleanly for the VPC overlay below without
inflating wall-clock past the pkgdown gate.

```{r cohort}
set.seed(20260613L)

n_subjects   <- 60L
ref_wt       <- 12   # kg, cohort median

# BID phase: 5 doses of 96 mg every 12 h; sample around the 5th dose (h 48).
# QD phase: 5 doses of 192 mg every 24 h starting after a 28-day washout
# from the BID phase; sample around the 5th dose.
bid_dose_mg     <- 8  * ref_wt
qd_dose_mg      <- 16 * ref_wt
bid_interval    <- 12
qd_interval     <- 24
n_doses_each    <- 5L
washout_h       <- 28 * 24            # 4 weeks between crossover phases
bid_ss_start    <- (n_doses_each - 1L) * bid_interval                 # 48 h
qd_ss_start     <- n_doses_each * bid_interval + washout_h +
                   (n_doses_each - 1L) * qd_interval                  # = 60 + 672 + 96 = 828 h
bid_sample_h    <- c(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12)
qd_sample_h     <- c(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24)

bid_dose_times <- seq.int(0L, by = bid_interval, length.out = n_doses_each)
qd_dose_times  <- (n_doses_each * bid_interval + washout_h) +
                   seq.int(0L, by = qd_interval, length.out = n_doses_each)

dose_rows <- dplyr::bind_rows(
  tibble::tibble(
    id   = rep(seq_len(n_subjects), each = n_doses_each),
    time = rep(bid_dose_times,      times = n_subjects),
    amt  = bid_dose_mg,
    evid = 1L,
    cmt  = 1L,            # depot
    OCC  = 1L
  ),
  tibble::tibble(
    id   = rep(seq_len(n_subjects), each = n_doses_each),
    time = rep(qd_dose_times,       times = n_subjects),
    amt  = qd_dose_mg,
    evid = 1L,
    cmt  = 1L,
    OCC  = 2L
  )
)

obs_rows <- dplyr::bind_rows(
  tibble::tibble(
    id   = rep(seq_len(n_subjects), each = length(bid_sample_h)),
    time = rep(bid_ss_start + bid_sample_h, times = n_subjects),
    amt  = 0,
    evid = 0L,
    cmt  = NA_integer_,
    OCC  = 1L
  ),
  tibble::tibble(
    id   = rep(seq_len(n_subjects), each = length(qd_sample_h)),
    time = rep(qd_ss_start + qd_sample_h, times = n_subjects),
    amt  = 0,
    evid = 0L,
    cmt  = NA_integer_,
    OCC  = 2L
  )
)

events <- dplyr::bind_rows(dose_rows, obs_rows) |>
  dplyr::mutate(WT = ref_wt) |>
  dplyr::arrange(id, time, dplyr::desc(evid))

stopifnot(!anyDuplicated(unique(events[, c("id", "time", "evid")])))
```

# Simulation

```{r simulate}
mod <- rxode2::rxode2(readModelDb("Zhao_2012_abacavir"))

sim <- rxode2::rxSolve(
  mod,
  events = events,
  keep   = c("WT", "OCC")
) |>
  as.data.frame()
```

Deterministic typical-value lines (zero IIV / IOV / residual) for
the two-occasion overlay below:

```{r simulate-typical}
mod_typical <- mod |> rxode2::zeroRe()
sim_typical <- rxode2::rxSolve(
  mod_typical,
  events = events,
  keep   = c("WT", "OCC")
) |>
  as.data.frame()
```

# Replicate Figure 3: visual predictive check by occasion

Zhao 2012 Figure 3 shows the VPC of abacavir concentrations
overlaying the 5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles of simulated
concentrations against observed data. The cohort below reproduces
that envelope at steady state in each crossover phase, with time
re-zeroed to time-after-dose (TAD) within each phase.

```{r figure-3, fig.width = 8, fig.height = 4}
sim_tad <- sim |>
  dplyr::mutate(
    tad = dplyr::case_when(
      OCC == 1L ~ time - bid_ss_start,
      OCC == 2L ~ time - qd_ss_start
    ),
    phase = dplyr::case_when(
      OCC == 1L ~ "BID (8 mg/kg q12h)",
      OCC == 2L ~ "QD (16 mg/kg q24h)"
    )
  ) |>
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(Cc), tad >= 0,
                (OCC == 1L & tad <= 12) | (OCC == 2L & tad <= 24))

sim_quantiles <- sim_tad |>
  dplyr::group_by(phase, tad) |>
  dplyr::summarise(
    Q05 = stats::quantile(Cc, 0.05, na.rm = TRUE),
    Q50 = stats::quantile(Cc, 0.50, na.rm = TRUE),
    Q95 = stats::quantile(Cc, 0.95, na.rm = TRUE),
    .groups = "drop"
  )

ggplot(sim_quantiles, aes(tad, Q50)) +
  geom_ribbon(aes(ymin = Q05, ymax = Q95), alpha = 0.2, fill = "steelblue") +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7) +
  facet_wrap(~ phase, scales = "free_x") +
  labs(
    x = "Time after dose (h)",
    y = "Cc (mg/L)",
    title = "Replicates Zhao 2012 Figure 3 (VPC by crossover phase, WT = 12 kg)",
    caption = "Median + 5-95% interval, n = 60 per phase. Replicates Figure 3 of Zhao 2012."
  )
```

# Typical-value steady-state profiles by occasion

Holding random effects to zero and overlaying the BID and QD
typical-value profiles at the cohort-median 12 kg makes the
predicted Cmax / Tmax / Cmin contrast between the two regimens
visible without IIV scatter.

```{r typical-overlay, fig.width = 7, fig.height = 4}
sim_typical_tad <- sim_typical |>
  dplyr::mutate(
    tad = dplyr::case_when(
      OCC == 1L ~ time - bid_ss_start,
      OCC == 2L ~ time - qd_ss_start
    ),
    phase = dplyr::case_when(
      OCC == 1L ~ "BID (8 mg/kg q12h)",
      OCC == 2L ~ "QD (16 mg/kg q24h)"
    )
  ) |>
  dplyr::filter(tad >= 0,
                (OCC == 1L & tad <= 12) | (OCC == 2L & tad <= 24)) |>
  dplyr::distinct(phase, tad, Cc)

ggplot(sim_typical_tad, aes(tad, Cc, colour = phase)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.8) +
  labs(
    x = "Time after dose (h)",
    y = "Typical Cc (mg/L)",
    colour = NULL,
    title = "Typical-value steady-state abacavir profile by PENTA 15 crossover phase",
    caption = "WT = 12 kg, zero IIV / IOV / residual error. BID = 8 mg/kg q12h; QD = 16 mg/kg q24h."
  ) +
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")
```

# PKNCA validation

Steady-state NCA per crossover phase: BID AUC0-12 and QD AUC0-24,
plus Cmax and Tmax in each phase. Time is re-zeroed to TAD within
the steady-state dose interval so PKNCA's `auclast` integrates
over the right window in each occasion.

```{r pknca}
# Filter only on missing Cc (never on `time > 0` or `Cc > 0`) so the
# time = 0 anchor row survives -- PKNCA needs it to integrate from t = 0.
pkn_in <- sim |>
  dplyr::mutate(
    tad = dplyr::case_when(
      OCC == 1L ~ time - bid_ss_start,
      OCC == 2L ~ time - qd_ss_start
    ),
    treatment = dplyr::case_when(
      OCC == 1L ~ "BID (8 mg/kg q12h)",
      OCC == 2L ~ "QD (16 mg/kg q24h)"
    )
  ) |>
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(Cc), tad >= 0,
                (OCC == 1L & tad <= 12) | (OCC == 2L & tad <= 24)) |>
  dplyr::select(id, treatment, tad, Cc)

# Defensive: ensure a tad = 0 row exists per (id, treatment). Pre-dose Cc = 0
# is correct for this extravascular model at steady-state TAD origin (the
# pre-fifth-dose trough is integrated into the previous dose interval).
pkn_in <- dplyr::bind_rows(
  pkn_in,
  pkn_in |> dplyr::distinct(id, treatment) |>
    dplyr::mutate(tad = 0, Cc = 0)
) |>
  dplyr::distinct(id, treatment, tad, .keep_all = TRUE) |>
  dplyr::arrange(id, treatment, tad)

dose_pkn <- dplyr::bind_rows(
  tibble::tibble(
    id   = seq_len(n_subjects),
    tad  = 0,
    amt  = bid_dose_mg,
    treatment = "BID (8 mg/kg q12h)"
  ),
  tibble::tibble(
    id   = seq_len(n_subjects),
    tad  = 0,
    amt  = qd_dose_mg,
    treatment = "QD (16 mg/kg q24h)"
  )
)

conc_obj <- PKNCA::PKNCAconc(pkn_in, Cc ~ tad | treatment + id)
dose_obj <- PKNCA::PKNCAdose(dose_pkn, amt ~ tad | treatment + id,
                             route = "extravascular")

intervals <- data.frame(
  start    = c(0, 0),
  end      = c(12, 24),
  cmax     = c(TRUE,  TRUE),
  tmax     = c(TRUE,  TRUE),
  auclast  = c(TRUE,  TRUE)
)

# Each subject contributes one occasion of one treatment; PKNCA picks the
# matching interval per (treatment, id) automatically.
nca_data <- PKNCA::PKNCAdata(conc_obj, dose_obj, intervals = intervals)
nca_res  <- PKNCA::pk.nca(nca_data)
```

## Comparison against published values

Zhao 2012 reports an adult AUC0-12 target value of 6.02 mg*h/L
(Discussion, citing reference [9]) and a PENTA 15 trial-cohort
AUC0-24 range of 4.93-22.03 mg*h/L (Discussion, citing the
PENTA 15 publication [11]). At the cohort-median 12 kg the
typical-value expected AUC values from `Dose / CL/F` are 96 / 13.4
= 7.16 mg*h/L (BID AUC0-12) and 192 / 13.4 = 14.33 mg*h/L (QD
AUC0-24). Both fall within the PENTA 15 reported AUC0-24 range
when scaled appropriately and are consistent with the adult AUC0-12
target.

```{r nca_compare}
reference <- tibble::tribble(
  ~treatment,                 ~cmax,  ~tmax, ~auclast,
  "BID (8 mg/kg q12h)",         NA,    NA,    7.16,
  "QD (16 mg/kg q24h)",         NA,    NA,   14.33
)
cmp <- nlmixr2lib::ncaComparisonTable(
  simulated     = nca_res,
  reference     = reference,
  by            = "treatment",
  params        = "auclast",
  units         = c(auclast = "mg*h/L"),
  tolerance_pct = 20
)
knitr::kable(
  cmp,
  caption = paste(
    "Simulated steady-state AUC per crossover phase (WT = 12 kg,",
    "n = 60) vs. the typical-value AUC = Dose / CL/F expectation",
    "from Zhao 2012 Table 3 (CL/F at 12 kg = 13.4 L/h, F = 1).",
    "Both treatments fall inside the PENTA 15 reported AUC0-24",
    "range of 4.93-22.03 mg*h/L from the source's Discussion.",
    "* differs from reference by >20%."
  )
)
```

Per-treatment simulated Cmax / Tmax / AUClast for visual
inspection:

```{r nca_per_cell}
nca_per_cell <- as.data.frame(nca_res$result) |>
  dplyr::filter(PPTESTCD %in% c("cmax", "tmax", "auclast")) |>
  dplyr::group_by(treatment, PPTESTCD) |>
  dplyr::summarise(
    median = stats::median(PPORRES, na.rm = TRUE),
    p05    = stats::quantile(PPORRES, 0.05, na.rm = TRUE),
    p95    = stats::quantile(PPORRES, 0.95, na.rm = TRUE),
    .groups = "drop"
  ) |>
  dplyr::mutate(`NCA parameter` = nlmixr2lib::ncaParamLabel(PPTESTCD),
                .keep = "unused", .before = "treatment")
knitr::kable(
  nca_per_cell,
  caption = "Simulated abacavir steady-state NCA per crossover phase (WT = 12 kg, n = 60). Cmax (mg/L); Tmax (h); AUClast (mg*h/L)."
)
```

# Assumptions and deviations

- **Print-year vs online-year discrepancy on the file name.** The
  source PDF masthead is Accepted 26 September 2011 / Accepted
  Article Online 12 October 2011, and the article appears in
  print as *Br J Clin Pharmacol.* 2012;73(4):641-648. The task
  metadata names the model file using the 2012 print year, which
  matches the journal volume citation rather than the online
  publication year (2011). Per Phase 1 step 2 of the extraction
  skill, the file is named `Zhao_2012_abacavir.R` to align with
  the BJCP 2012 volume citation used as the canonical reference.
- **Task-metadata drug field repaired silently.** The runner's
  generated `drug` field was the journal name truncation
  "British Journal of Clinical Ph" rather than the drug. The
  paper title unambiguously identifies the drug as **abacavir**
  and the registry already contains three abacavir popPK models
  (Jullien 2005, Archary 2019, Tikiso 2021), so the recoverable
  parser error is corrected to `Zhao_2012_abacavir` without an
  operator sidecar.
- **Inter-occasion variability encoded with an explicit `OCC`
  multiplexer.** Zhao 2012 Methods state that "interoccasion
  variability on CL/F was coupled to interindividual variability
  by an additive model" with IOV CL/F = 21.6% CV across the BID
  and QD crossover phases. The packaged model encodes IOV
  explicitly via two per-occasion log-CL etas (`etaiov_cl_1`,
  `etaiov_cl_2`) multiplexed by the binary `oc1 / oc2`
  decomposition of the canonical `OCC` covariate; the second eta
  is `fix(0.04559)` at the same variance as the first per the
  source's NONMEM `$OMEGA BLOCK(1) SAME` pattern. This matches
  the Jonsson 2011 ethambutol 4-occasion analogue and lets
  downstream users simulate either occasion by setting the `OCC`
  column to 1 or 2 in the event table.
- **BLQ handling not implemented in the packaged model.** Zhao
  2012 imputed 13.5% of plasma abacavir samples below the
  LLQ 0.015 mg/L at half the LLQ (Methods). The packaged model
  has no BLQ floor; consumers fitting real data with this model
  should apply M5- or M6-style BLQ handling at data-assembly time
  before fitting or NCA.
- **PKNCA validation uses the typical-value AUC = Dose / CL/F
  expectation as its primary reference, not a published NCA
  table.** The Zhao 2012 paper does not provide a per-cohort NCA
  summary table (Cmax / Tmax / AUC) against which simulated
  values can be compared directly. The PENTA 15 publication
  (reference [11] of Zhao 2012) reports an AUC0-24 cohort range
  of 4.93-22.03 mg*h/L, and the validation here uses (i) the
  typical-value AUC = Dose / CL/F per crossover phase (BID
  AUC0-12 = 7.16 mg*h/L; QD AUC0-24 = 14.33 mg*h/L) and (ii) the
  PENTA 15 cohort range as a loose sanity bound on the simulated
  per-subject values.
- **Cohort-median 12 kg used for the virtual cohort.** Zhao 2012
  Results explicitly identify 12 kg as the cohort median used as
  the WT reference in the CL/F power model; the validation
  cohort is sized identically. The PENTA 15 cohort itself spans
  7.4-15.9 kg; consumers who want to reproduce the full per-
  subject AUC0-24 range can simulate at each subject's actual
  weight by supplying a per-subject `WT` column.
- **Allometric scaling is estimated, not theory-based.** The
  Zhao 2012 cohort age range (3-36 months) is too narrow to
  identify both ontogeny and theory-based 0.75 allometric scaling
  simultaneously, and the authors elected to estimate the power
  exponent (1.14) rather than fix it at 0.75 (Discussion). The
  packaged model preserves the estimated exponent; consumers
  comparing this model to other paediatric abacavir popPK models
  in the registry (Archary 2019, Tikiso 2021) should expect
  different WT-scaling behaviour because those papers use
  fixed-exponent allometry.
- **WT covariate documented as time-fixed at the PK-sampling
  visit.** Zhao 2012 Table 1 reports "Body weight (kg) on the day
  of pharmacokinetic sampling," but the BID and QD PK sampling
  visits are 4 weeks apart so a per-subject weight could in
  principle differ between occasions. The packaged model accepts
  a single time-fixed `WT` per subject for simplicity; consumers
  who have per-occasion weights can supply them by varying `WT`
  across the two occasions in the event table.
- **`linCmt()` not used.** The model is written with explicit
  `d/dt(depot)`, `d/dt(central)`, and `d/dt(peripheral1)` ODEs to
  make the IOV multiplexing on `cl` maximally visible alongside
  the structural ODEs. A `linCmt()` parameterisation would be
  equally correct.
