PMID- 25563817 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160415 LR - 20181113 IS - 1530-9932 (Electronic) IS - 1530-9932 (Linking) VI - 16 IP - 4 DP - 2015 Aug TI - Application of quality by design (QbD) approach to ultrasonic atomization spray coating of drug-eluting stents. PG - 811-23 LID - 10.1208/s12249-014-0266-9 [doi] AB - The drug coating process for coated drug-eluting stents (DES) has been identified as a key source of inter- and intra-batch variability in drug elution rates. Quality-by-design (QbD) principles were applied to gain an understanding of the ultrasonic spray coating process of DES. Statistically based design of experiments (DOE) were used to understand the relationship between ultrasonic atomization spray coating parameters and dependent variables such as coating mass ratio, roughness, drug solid state composite microstructure, and elution kinetics. Defect-free DES coatings composed of 70% 85:15 poly(DL-lactide-co-glycolide) and 30% everolimus were fabricated with a constant coating mass. The drug elution profile was characterized by a mathematical model describing biphasic release kinetics. Model coefficients were analyzed as a DOE response. Changes in ultrasonic coating processing conditions resulted in substantial changes in roughness and elution kinetics. Based on the outcome from the DOE study, a design space was defined in terms of the critical coating process parameters resulting in optimum coating roughness and drug elution. This QbD methodology can be useful to enhance the quality of coated DES. FAU - McDermott, Martin AU - McDermott M AD - Division of Biology, Chemistry and Materials Science, Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20993, USA, Martin.McDermott@fda.hhs.gov. FAU - Chatterjee, Sharmista AU - Chatterjee S FAU - Hu, Xiaoli AU - Hu X FAU - Ash-Shakoor, Ariel AU - Ash-Shakoor A FAU - Avery, Reginald AU - Avery R FAU - Belyaeva, Anastasiya AU - Belyaeva A FAU - Cruz, Celia AU - Cruz C FAU - Hughes, Minerva AU - Hughes M FAU - Leadbetter, Joanne AU - Leadbetter J FAU - Merkle, Conrad AU - Merkle C FAU - Moot, Taylor AU - Moot T FAU - Parvinian, Sepideh AU - Parvinian S FAU - Patwardhan, Dinesh AU - Patwardhan D FAU - Saylor, David AU - Saylor D FAU - Tang, Nancy AU - Tang N FAU - Zhang, Tina AU - Zhang T LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150107 PL - United States TA - AAPS PharmSciTech JT - AAPS PharmSciTech JID - 100960111 RN - 34346-01-5 (Polyglactin 910) RN - 9HW64Q8G6G (Everolimus) SB - IM MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid MH - *Drug-Eluting Stents MH - Everolimus/chemistry/pharmacokinetics MH - Microscopy, Atomic Force MH - Microscopy, Electron, Scanning MH - Polyglactin 910 MH - Surface Properties MH - *Ultrasonics PMC - PMC4508304 EDAT- 2015/01/08 06:00 MHDA- 2016/04/16 06:00 PMCR- 2016/01/07 CRDT- 2015/01/08 06:00 PHST- 2014/08/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/12/08 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/01/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/01/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/04/16 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/01/07 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 266 [pii] AID - 10.1208/s12249-014-0266-9 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - AAPS PharmSciTech. 2015 Aug;16(4):811-23. doi: 10.1208/s12249-014-0266-9. Epub 2015 Jan 7.