A method to measure deferasirox in plasma using HPLC coupled with MS/MS detection and its potential application.

abstract：:Sirolimus (rapamycin, RAPA) is a natural fermentation product (macrolide antibiotic) that has demonstrated potent immunosuppressive activity. A reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method is described for analysis of the drug in whole blood. The samples are purified by using liquid-liquid extra...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Svensson JO,Brattström C,Säwe J

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair testing procedures allow a cumulative reflection of long-term drug abuse and are useful as a test for compliance in clinical toxicology. In the present study, liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry was used to determine analgesic opioid drugs in hair samples. The procedure used a simple metha...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Musshoff F,Lachenmeier K,Trafkowski J,Madea B,Nauck F,Stamer U

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenytoin is an effective anticonvulsant, but high serum phenytoin concentrations may be associated with serious toxicity. The upper limit for the therapeutic serum concentration of phenytoin is considered to be 80 micromol/L. However, in some situations higher serum concentrations are needed to control seizures. The ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Kozer E,Parvez S,Minassian BA,Kobayashi J,Verjee Z,Koren G

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two published case reports showed that addition of risperidone (1 and 2 mg/d) to a clozapine treatment resulted in a strong increase of clozapine plasma levels. As clozapine is metabolized by cytochrome P450 isozymes, a study was initiated to assess the in vivo interaction potential of risperidone on various cytochrom...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Eap CB,Bondolfi G,Zullino D,Bryois C,Fuciec M,Savary L,Jonzier-Perey M,Baumann P

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of quinine in whole blood, plasma, urine, and samples dried on filter paper is described. Extraction was made with toluene followed by back-extraction into phosphate buffer. A reversed-phase liquid chromatography system with fluorescence detection was used. The within-day coefficient of variation of the m...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Ericsson O,Fridén M,Hellgren U,Gustafsson LL

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging nation of South Africa, in common with some other countries, notably Eastern Europe, is heir to decades of neglect with regards to the exposure of the majority of its population to toxic materials. In this short review, the major toxic health hazards are described. For most of these risks there are now pr...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Stewart MJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lidocaine is widely used in antiarrhythmic therapy, and the need to monitor the drug concentration in the blood of patients receiving lidocaine is well established. We have developed a new assay for lidocaine designed for the routine clinical therapeutic drug monitoring laboratory. A 100-microliter aliquot of blood pl...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Gal J,Freedman MD,Kumar E,Freed CR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PROTEASE INHIBITOR TDM: This study examines the importance of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of protease inhibitors (PI) in adults and children infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Pediatric patients were included because information in this population is limited. A high performance liquid chromato...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Walson PD,Cox S,Utkin I,Gerber N,Crim L,Brady M,Koranyi K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to investigate the serum concentrations of olanzapine in relation to age, sex, and other factors in Chinese patients aged between 10 and 90 years. METHODS:Data for 884 olanzapine patients, deposited between 2016 and 2017, were retrieved from the therapeutic drug monitoring da...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Deng SH,Wang ZZ,Lu HY,Li L,Hu JQ,Zhu XQ,Xie HS,Chen HZ,Zhang M,Ni XJ,Qiu C,Shang DW,Wen YG

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent literature has urged caution in the interpretation of vancomycin serum concentrations in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), because falsely elevated levels in excess of 70% have been reported with the most commonly used fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA). The purpose of this study was to ev...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Smith PF,Petros WP,Soucie MP,Copeland KR

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indomethacin (INDO) pharmacokinetics were examined in 18 neonates on 19 occasions, before and after patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure. Patients received INDO as an initial dose of 0.25 mg/kg intravenously, and INDO serum concentrations were measured 2 and 8 h after the dose. Subsequent doses were individualized b...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Gal P,Ransom JL,Weaver RL,Schall S,Wyble LE,Carlos RQ,Brown Y

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major advances in immunosuppression and reductions in the rates of acute rejection have led to increasing graft and patient survival rates during the past two decades. Chronic dysfunction of the renal allograft, however, remains a major clinical problem and probably represents the end result of the complex interplay b...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Kaplan B,Srinivas TR,Meier-Kriesche HU

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of point-of-care assays enabling bedside testing such as the VerifyNow P2Y12 system might prove useful in clinical settings. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of the VerifyNow P2Y12 assay to estimate the inhibition of platelet aggregation provided by clopidogrel in the absence of baseline...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Lordkipanidzé M,Pharand C,Nguyen TA,Schampaert E,Diodati JG

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OKT3 is a murine monoclonal antibody of the immunoglobulin IgG2a isotype. The target of OKT3, CD3, is a 17-20 kilodalton (kD) molecule that is part of a multimolecular complex found only on mature T cells and medullary thymocytes. This complex is uniquely situated next to the T-cell receptor for antigen. An interactio...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Norman DJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of alternative strategies to the traditional pre-dose/trough (C0) blood sampling for cyclosporine (CsA) therapeutic drug monitoring has the potential to revolutionize analytical practices which have, in many centers, been established for some 20 years. While the C0 sample has previously been recommended, curre...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Morris RG,Russ GR,Cervelli MJ,Juneja R,McDonald SP,Mathew TH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficacy of drugs for the treatment of substance-related disorders is moderate at best. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) could be an instrument to improve outcomes. Because TDM for most of those drugs is not established, the authors reviewed the literature and built a rating scale to detect the potentia...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Brünen S,Vincent PD,Baumann P,Hiemke C,Havemann-Reinecke U

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To increase target attainment rates, switching the mode of administration from intermittent (InI) to continuous infusion (CoI) has been proposed. In this study, target attainment rates and interpatient variation in exposure were compared between vancomycin InI- and CoI-treated critically ill patients. METHO...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： van Maarseveen EM,Gipmans S,Vasbinder E,Petjak M,van Zanten AR

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported that the cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2D6 plays an important role in the fluvoxamine metabolism. However, some other studies have reported that the CYP2D6 genotype has no major impact on the fluvoxamine concentration. This study investigated the dose-dependent effect of CYP2D6-variant alleles on...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Watanabe J,Suzuki Y,Fukui N,Sugai T,Ono S,Inoue Y,Someya T

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) is a cytoplasmic enzyme that preferentially catalyzes the S-methylation of aromatic and heterocyclic sulphydryl compounds, such as the thiopurine drugs azathioprine, mercaptopurine, and thioguanine. These drugs form the same terminal metabolites, the thioguanine nucleotides (TGNs). ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Lennard L

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric patients with leukemia, other malignancies, and rheumatological disease receive methotrexate chronically. Because of the documented correlation between methotrexate levels of compliance and clinical outcome, it is conceivable to verify appropriate systemic exposure to the drug. Saliva sampling may be of pote...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Press J,Berkovitch M,Laxer R,Giesbrecht E,Verjee Z,Silverman E,Klein J,Koren G

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the current study was to compare the pharmacokinetics of phenobarbital (PB) in extensive metabolizers (EMs) and poor metabolizers (PMs) of S-mephenytoin. Ten healthy volunteers (5 EMs and 5 PMs) were given 30 mg PB daily for 14 days. PB and p-hydroxyphenobarbital (p-OHPB) in serum and urine were measured by...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Hadama A,Ieiri I,Morita T,Kimura M,Urae A,Irie S,Kaneda T,Mamiya K,Tashiro N,Higuchi S,Otsubo K

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sotrastaurin (AEB071) is an investigational immunosuppressant that blocks T-lymphocyte activation through protein kinase C inhibition. It is currently in Phase II of clinical development for the prevention of acute rejection after solid organ transplantation. In renal transplant clinical trials, sotrastaurin has been ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Kovarik JM,Slade A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Raltegravir is the first human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) integrase inhibitor used in treatment-experienced patients who have evidence of viral replication and HIV-1 strains resistance to multiple antiretroviral regimens. Etravirine is a novel NNRTI, active against HIV-1 strains harboring multiple NNRT...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Quaranta S,Woloch C,Paccou A,Giocanti M,Solas C,Lacarelle B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Methoxy-N,N-dialkyltryptamines are tryptamine derivatives that possess strong hallucinogenic effects. Because of their escalating popularity and potent physiological effects, an increasing number of acute poisoning cases have been reported in various countries. For their metabolism in humans, only a few studies have...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Katagi M,Kamata T,Zaitsu K,Shima N,Kamata H,Nakanishi K,Nishioka H,Miki A,Tsuchihashi H

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have suggested previously that acute tolerance to the chronotropic effect of cocaine develops and that tolerance is incomplete, such that the heart-rate decline in the presence of stable plasma cocaine concentrations approaches a plateau that exceeds the baseline heart rate. One possible mechanism for heart-rate de...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Ambre JJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma concentration-antidepressant response relationships for dothiepin, nordothiepin, dothiepin-S-oxide, and nordothiepin-S-oxide were investigated in 50 patients (33 women and 17 men), who had had a major depressive episode. Depression and anxiety were assessed at the start of therapy and after 2 and 4 weeks by mea...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Ilett KF,Blythe TH,Hackett LP,Ong RT,Tannenbaum DA,Clarke TM

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serious challenge in diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is the need to document alcohol use during pregnancy. Maternal/paternal alcohol abuse affects the likelihood of fetal alcohol exposure, and hence the occurrence of FASD. The objective of the current study was to document the use of the fatty acid...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Kulaga V,Pragst F,Fulga N,Koren G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CYP2D6*10(*10) allele that causes decreased CYP2D6 activity is present in Asians with a high frequency of approximately 50%. We studied the effects of the *10 allele on the steady-state plasma concentrations of aripiprazole and its active metabolite, dehydroaripiprazole. The subjects were 63 Japanese patients with...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Suzuki T,Mihara K,Nakamura A,Nagai G,Kagawa S,Nemoto K,Ohta I,Arakaki H,Uno T,Kondo T

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of mycophenolic acid (MPA) in combination with either cyclosporine (CsA) or tacrolimus (TRL) on whole-blood lymphocyte function was assessed in vitro as well as in vivo. For the in vitro studies, rat whole blood was incubated with different concentrations of MPA together with CsA or TRL. In vivo, rats (n = ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Barten MJ,Shipkova M,Bartsch P,Dhein S,Streit F,Tarnok A,Armstrong VW,Mohr FW,Oellerich M,Gummert JF

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the high prevalence of the use of medications in daily practice and the large number of people taking antirheumatic agents, the risk of drug-drug interactions and of hepatotoxicity is of concern. Both old and new compounds show such a risk. Nonsteroidal antinflammatory drugs are widely used drugs with potential ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Anelli MG,Scioscia C,Grattagliano I,Lapadula G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00