Recently, drug personalization has received noticeable attention. Problems arising from standard generalized drug treatments have aroused over the years, particularly among pediatric and geriatric patients. The growing awareness of the limitations of the "one-size-fits-all" approach has progressively led to a rethinking of the current medicine's development, laying the basis of personalized medicine. Three-dimensional printing is a promising tool for realizing personalized therapeutic solutions fitting specific patient needs. This technology offers the possibility to manufacture drug delivery devices with tailored doses, sizes, and release characteristics. Among additive manufacturing techniques, fused deposition modeling (FDM) is the most studied for oral drug delivery device production due to its high precision and cheapness. By playing with factors such as drug loading method, filament production, and printing parameters, the medication release profile of a drug delivery device produced by 3D printing can be tailored depending on the patient's requirements. This review focuses on the applications of FDM in drug fabrication using poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) as drug-loaded matrices. The authors aim to provide an overview of the current trends in this research field, with special attention to the effect of the printing parameters, tablet shape, and drug distribution and concentration on drug customization and personalized drug release.

An overview of poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) in pharmaceutical additive manufacturing / Bianchi, Marica; Pegoretti, Alessandro; Fredi, Giulia. - In: JOURNAL OF VINYL & ADDITIVE TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 1083-5601. - 29:2(2023), pp. 223-239. [10.1002/vnl.21982]

An overview of poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) in pharmaceutical additive manufacturing

Bianchi, Marica
Primo
;
Pegoretti, Alessandro
Secondo
;
Fredi, Giulia
Ultimo
2023-01-01

Abstract

Recently, drug personalization has received noticeable attention. Problems arising from standard generalized drug treatments have aroused over the years, particularly among pediatric and geriatric patients. The growing awareness of the limitations of the "one-size-fits-all" approach has progressively led to a rethinking of the current medicine's development, laying the basis of personalized medicine. Three-dimensional printing is a promising tool for realizing personalized therapeutic solutions fitting specific patient needs. This technology offers the possibility to manufacture drug delivery devices with tailored doses, sizes, and release characteristics. Among additive manufacturing techniques, fused deposition modeling (FDM) is the most studied for oral drug delivery device production due to its high precision and cheapness. By playing with factors such as drug loading method, filament production, and printing parameters, the medication release profile of a drug delivery device produced by 3D printing can be tailored depending on the patient's requirements. This review focuses on the applications of FDM in drug fabrication using poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) as drug-loaded matrices. The authors aim to provide an overview of the current trends in this research field, with special attention to the effect of the printing parameters, tablet shape, and drug distribution and concentration on drug customization and personalized drug release.
2023
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Bianchi, Marica; Pegoretti, Alessandro; Fredi, Giulia
An overview of poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) in pharmaceutical additive manufacturing / Bianchi, Marica; Pegoretti, Alessandro; Fredi, Giulia. - In: JOURNAL OF VINYL & ADDITIVE TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 1083-5601. - 29:2(2023), pp. 223-239. [10.1002/vnl.21982]
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