Quality management and accreditation in a mixed research and clinical hair testing analytical laboratory setting-a review.

abstract：:Whole blood steady-state trough concentrations of cyclosporine were measured by radioimmunoassay (RIA) and TDx assays employing monoclonal antibodies in 82 samples from 39 renal transplant patients. Intra- and interassay coefficients of variation for the new TDx technique averaged 3.2 and 5.4%, respectively. In the co...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Klotz U

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ribavirin exposure after the first dose (D0AUC0-4h) >1755 mcg·h·L is predictive of sustained virological response (SVR) in patients with hepatitis C treated with peginterferon and ribavirin. The aim of this study was to test the benefit of ribavirin early dose adjustment based on this target in naïve patient...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Loustaud-Ratti V,Maynard M,Thevenon S,Pradat P,Rousseau A,Alain S,Deny P,Gagnieu MC,Tran A,Dao T,Silvain C,Lunel-Fabiani F,Picard N,Zublena I,Marquet P,Trepo C,RIBAJUSTE Group.

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This naturalistic therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) study aimed to evaluate the relationship between dosage, serum concentration, and clinical outcome in children and adolescents treated with the serotonin reuptake inhibitor sertraline for different indications. METHODS:Steady-state trough serum concentratio...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Taurines R,Burger R,Wewetzer C,Pfuhlmann B,Mehler-Wex C,Gerlach M,Egberts K

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid reversed-phase C-18 high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assay without a prior extraction step for dihydroquinidine (HQD) in serum is described. The method is selective and useful for monitoring HQD and its presumed metabolites, quinidine (QD), N-oxide QD, 3-hydroxy QD (3-OHQD), and 10-11-d...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Camsonne R,Moulin MA,Albessard F,Perault M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During once-daily dosing regimens of aminoglycosides, administration of large single doses results in high peak levels and low 24-h trough levels. However, commercial assays for monitoring aminoglycoside levels are designed to cover the smaller range of serum concentrations usually observed during multiple daily dosin...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Blaser J,König C,Fatio R,Follath F,Cometta A,Glauser M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the introduction of a cyclosporin monitoring strategy based on the use of a sample collected 2 hours after dosing (C2) rather than the predose sample (C0), there was concern that the differences in blood cyclosporin results from the various assay systems would result in assay-specific target ranges for C2 monitor...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Johnston A,Chusney G,Schütz E,Oellerich M,Lee TD,Holt DW

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of effective but highly toxic drugs that exhibit a narrow therapeutic index and marked interpatient pharmacokinetic variability. Individualized therapy with such drugs requires therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) to obtain the desired clinical effects safely. Cost-effectiveness analysis in health care...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Touw DJ,Neef C,Thomson AH,Vinks AA,Cost-Effectiveness of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Committee of the International Association for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology.

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:A rapid and simultaneous determination of several analgesic antiinflammatory agents--ibuprofen, acetaminophen, indomethacin, and salicylic acid--in human serum was developed by using capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) coupled with diode-array ultraviolet detection. After precipitation of serum protein with acetonitr...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Makino K,Yano T,Maiguma T,Teshima D,Sendo T,Itoh Y,Oishi R

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Pentobarbital is used for management of intractable seizures and for reducing elevated intracranial pressure. Dosing of pentobarbital can be aided by therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). There is no commercially available automated assay for measurement of pentobarbital serum/plasma concentrations; consequentl...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Humble RM,Ehlers A,Pakalniskis BL,Morris C,Drees D,Kulhavy J,Krasowski MD

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to evaluate the isolated placental lobule to study maternofetal transplacental digoxin transfer and accumulation in placental tissue in vitro. Digoxin passage across the isolated lobule of 10 human placentas was calculated from repeated fetal and maternal perfusate samples, and placental tissue digoxin con...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Schmolling J,Jung S,Reinsberg J,Schlebusch H

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several reports of loss of efficacy or adverse effects have been described after generic substitution of antipsychotics. To date, studies comparing serum drug levels in patients switched to generic antipsychotics in a standard clinical setting are lacking. The aim of this study was to investigate if switchin...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Italiano D,Bruno A,Santoro V,Lanza G,Muscatello MR,Zoccali R,Spina E

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calculated creatinine clearance (CrCL) estimates are frequently used as estimates of aminoglycoside clearance (AGCL), despite being inadequately studied. Thirty surgical intensive care unit (SICU) patients with stable serum creatinines (0.6-6.3 mg/dl) and steady-state aminoglycoside levels were studied. A one-compartm...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Deeter RG,Krauss EA,Penn F,Nahaczewski AE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring plasma concentrations of therapeutic drugs presents special problems when these drugs are metabolized to compounds that have pharmacologic activity. This presentation reviews several methods for evaluating the pharmacologic activity of drug metabolites and describes the impact of active drug metabolites on ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Atkinson AJ Jr,Stec GP,Lertora JJ,Ruo TI,Thenot JP

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Itraconazole is a new triazole antifungal agent. Active orally, this drug is effective against a wide range of fungal pathogens that includes Aspergillus species, and its use in leukemic and AIDS patients is currently on the increase. Oral itraconazole absorption presents up to threefold interindividual variation in m...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Poirier JM,Lebot M,Descamps P,Levy M,Cheymol G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical usefulness of cyclosporine is hampered by dose-limiting toxicities to the kidney that are not predicted by drug levels in serum or whole blood. Because of its lipophilic nature, circulating plasma lipoproteins may play a role in drug disposition. This study characterized the pharmacokinetic parameters of ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Brunner LJ,Luke DR,Lautersztain J,Williams LA,LeMaistre CF,Yau JC

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hair analysis of ethyl glucuronide (EtG) has become, beside fatty acid ethyl ester, a valuable marker for the detection of moderate and chronic excessive alcohol consumption. So far, only few studies exist about the influence of cosmetic treatment on EtG content in hair. The aim of this study was to evaluate...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Kerekes I,Yegles M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current gentamicin dosing algorithms in adult populations target a high peak concentration (Cmax) assuring efficacy and a drug-free period (concentration <0.5 mg/L) preventing toxicity. In contrast, gentamicin-based regimens in neonatal sepsis often aim for lower peak levels and trough concentrations of 0.5-...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： van Maarseveen EM,Sprij A,Touw DJ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) may be used as biopharmaceuticals to treat various diseases, ranging from oncology to inflammatory and cardiovascular affections. Trustworthy analytical methods are necessary to study their pharmacokinetics, both during their development and in post-marketing studies. Because biopharmaceut...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Darrouzain F,Bian S,Desvignes C,Bris C,Watier H,Paintaud G,de Vries A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies suggest that therapeutic drug monitoring of protease inhibitors and nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors may contribute to the clinical outcome of HIV-infected patients. Because of the growing number of antiretroviral drugs and of drug combinations than can be administered to these patients, ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Poirier JM,Robidou P,Jaillon P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using mobile long-term electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring in 7 absence epilepsy patients, the course of spike-wave discharge rate before and during valproate monotherapy was measured and compared to the profile of valproic acid serum level. Correlation analysis was done, taking into account an eventual time dela...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Burr W,Froescher W,Hoffmann F,Stefan H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycophenolic acid, the active metabolite of the immunosuppressant and antiproliferative agent, mycophenolate mofetil, is primarily metabolized by glucuronidation to the inactive 7-O-glucuronide. Although the uridine diphosphate (UDP) 7-O-glucuronide is the principal excretion product of this drug, carboxyl-linked gluc...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Mackenzie PI

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many drugs, therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) has become widely available and accepted as an important component of clinical decision-making in the intensive care nursery setting. This review analyzes the potential factors that can either expand or restrict neonatal TDM. A case is made for the development of pharm...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Giacoia GP

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrafiltration techniques for the separation of bound and free ligand are dependent on minimal amounts of protein-bound drug leakage through the membrane devices. A dye-impregnated test strip protein assay (Chemstrip-9) provides a rapid, visual assessment of membrane protein leakage. The test strips are sensitive to ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Turley CP,Milligan T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer-based approach for estimating pharmacokinetic data and predicting plasma drug concentrations based on two measurements of plasma drug concentrations was compared with a standard two-point method for estimating aminoglycoside (AG) pharmacokinetic parameters. The computer-based technique was also used to pred...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Bachmann K,Pongsin V,Forney R Jr,Gronau G

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fentanyl, sufentanil, and morphine are commonly used in the conduct of anesthesia. Medical staff working with these drugs are at high risk of addiction. To detect and prevent diversion, a method was developed to quantify these drugs in discard syringes using the BioRad REMEDi HS Drug Profiling System. For fentanyl, th...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Holth LS,Friesen R,Green C,Krahn J

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:A simple high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for the determination of methotrexate (MTX) in biological fluids is described. The assay is rapid, the time required for analysis is less than 30 min, and it is sensitive, up to 0.01 microgram/ml, which is three times below the toxic MTX concentration. Fift...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Najjar TA,Matar KM,Alfawaz IM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00