Monitoring prednisone and prednisolone.

abstract：:Phenytoin binding to serum proteins and factors influencing protein binding were investigated in 38 critically ill trauma patients. In 24% of these patients, the free fraction of phenytoin was < or = 10%, whereas in 76%, the free phenytoin fraction was increased > 10%--up to 24%. Nonantiepileptic comedication, sex, or...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Zielmann S,Mielck F,Kahl R,Kazmaier S,Sydow M,Kolk J,Burchardi H

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray-tandem mass spectrometry method for the measurement of nicotine in human plasma. Samples (500 microL) with added deuterium-labeled d3-nicotine as an internal standard (IS) were treated with a 2-step process of ether extraction (6 ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Taylor PJ,Forrest KK,Landsberg PG,Mitchell C,Pillans PI

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epileptic patient well controlled on valproic acid (VPA) developed a prolonged episode of status epilepticus 12 days after initiation of 75 mg of clomipramine (CMI) to treat depression. Serum level of VPA in the emergency room was unchanged from her previous levels; serum level of CMI was very elevated despite the ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： DeToledo JC,Haddad H,Ramsay RE

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5alpha-Reductase inhibitors such as finasteride are prohibited in sports according to the World Anti-Doping Agency. This class of drugs is used therapeutically to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia, as well as male baldness, by decreasing 5alpha-reductase activity. Accordingly, metabolic pathways of endogenous as well...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Thevis M,Geyer H,Mareck U,Flenker U,Schänzer W

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serum trough concentrations as the sole means of monitoring safety and efficacy of vancomycin are insufficient. The daily area under the curve (AUC24) of serum concentration versus time to minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) ratio of greater than 400 mg × h/L has emerged as a more robust dosing target. A ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Lewis P

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study is to characterize the pharmacokinetics and the gastrointestinal side effect profiles of enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium (EC-MPS) in de novo kidney transplant patients of Hispanic ethnicity. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The pharmacokinetic study of EC-MPS was conducted in 11 de novo kidney ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Shah T,Tellez-Corrales E,Yang JW,Qazi Y,Wang J,Wilson J,Hutchinson I,Min DI

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies examining associations between antidepressant response and plasma levels of bupropion and its metabolites have yielded contradictory findings. There have been no such studies in youth. This study explored such associations in 8 boys and 8 girls, age 11 to 17 years, all prescribed bupropion sustained release (S...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Daviss WB,Perel JM,Brent DA,Axelson DA,Rudolph GR,Gilchrist R,Nuss S,Birmaher B

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of therapeutic drug monitoring strategies for cyclosporin (CsA) has evolved markedly in recent years since previous consensus guidelines were presented. Apart from the introduction of some new methods, the major change has been the shift away from the traditional predose/trough (C0) sample. The most popular al...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Morris RG,Holt DW,Armstrong VW,Griesmacher A,Napoli KL,Shaw LM,IFCC\/IATDMCT Joint Working Group.

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In children with cystic fibrosis (CF), the currently recommended amikacin dose ranges between 30-35 mg/kg/day; however, data supporting this dosing efficacy is lacking. Herein, the objectives were to develop a non-parametric pharmacokinetic population model (POPPK) for amikacin in children with CF and invest...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Woillard JB,Bouchet S,Fayon M,Marquet P,Monchaud C,Bui S

更新日期：2020-12-17 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：BACKGROUND:Cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A) isoenzyme metabolic activity varies between individuals and is therefore a possible candidate of influence on the therapeutic outcome of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Skoglund K,Richter J,Olsson-Strömberg U,Bergquist J,Aluthgedara W,Ubhayasekera SJ,Vikingsson S,Svedberg A,Söderlund S,Sandstedt A,Johnsson A,Aagesen J,Alsenhed J,Hägg S,Peterson C,Lotfi K,Gréen H

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunosuppressants cyclosporine, tacrolimus, sirolimus, everolimus, and probably also mycophenolic acid require therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)-guided dosing to ensure that blood concentrations are kept within the target range in transplant patients. Reliable, accurate, and precise test methods are therefore ess...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Christians U,Vinks AA,Langman LJ,Clarke W,Wallemacq P,van Gelder T,Renjen V,Marquet P,Meyer EJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycophenolate mofetil, the oral prodrug of mycophenolic acid, is indicated as immunosuppressive therapy after renal transplantation. To aid in the investigation of pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships of mycophenolic acid in the clinical setting, limited blood sampling strategies have been proposed, and model...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Willis C,Taylor PJ,Salm P,Tett SE,Pillans PI

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：: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：:A comparative bioavailability study of carbamazepine (CBZ) in tablets and a syrup preparation was carried out in six volunteers, using a crossover design. Plasma and saliva samples were collected at appropriate times, and the plasma specimens were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography for concentrations o...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Hooper WD,King AR,Patterson M,Dickinson RG,Eadie MJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the efficacy, development of adverse effects, and possible correlation between the plasma concentration of carbamazepine (CBZ) and its major metabolite, carbamazepine-10,11-epoxide (CBZ-E), in a group of epileptic patients in whom selective increases in CBZ doses were made. Eighteen patients with refracto...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Semah F,Gimenez F,Longer E,Laplane D,Thuillier A,Baulac M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effect of pharmacologic agents on the biologic fate of adenosine, a reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assay coupled with a solid-phase extraction (SPE) method was developed for simultaneous determination of plasma adenosine, hypoxanthine, xanthine, inosine, guanosine, and uric a...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Feng JD,Yeung PK

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of nonlinear kinetics on the steady-state ratio of serum phenytoin (PHT) to total 5-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-5-phenylhydantoin (p-HPPH) was studied in epileptic patients. In each patient, the ratio increased in a nonlinear fashion in relation to both the PHT dose and the PHT serum level. Patients with longer appar...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Bourgeois BF,Wad N

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the evaluation and interpretation of pharmacokinetic data reliable quantitative determinations are a requirement that can only be met by well-characterized and fully validated analytical methods. To cope with these requirements a method is being established that is based on an integrated and automated fiber-optic ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Gygax D,Botta L,Ehrat M,Graf P,Lefèvre G,Oroszlan P,Pfister C

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Australia is blessed with a great diversity of unique species in its fresh waters and in the marine environment around its coast. There is evidence that human and natural events are impacting on these species. Such impacts are associated with various agricultural, industrial, and domestic practices and with natural an...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Moore MR,Shaw G

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that chemical testing of biologic fluids is the most objective means of diagnosis of drug use. The presence of a drug analyte in a biologic specimen can be used to document exposure. The standard for drug testing in toxicology is an immunoassay screen conducted on a urine sample, followed by c...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Kintz P,Samyn N

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of storage time and temperature on the stability of FK 506 in patient blood samples and quality control samples was assessed with the Abbott IMx microparticle enzyme immunoassay. Blood FK 506 concentrations measured at days 0, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 14 were stable at room (22 degrees C), refrigerator (4 degrees C)...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Freeman DJ,Stawecki M,Howson B

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:SB2, an infliximab (IFX) biosimilar to the reference infliximab (R.I.) product (Remicade), received approval in the European Union for all IFX indications. Many decision algorithms based on the measurement of IFX trough levels and antibodies to infliximab are being increasingly used to optimize IFX treatment...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Jentzer A,Berger AE,Labetoulle R,Haccourt A,Roblin X,Paul S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of an appropriate therapy and dosing regimen is a significant challenge in the treatment of cancer. Although there are recommended standardized chemotherapy protocols for some types of cancer, protocol changes that usually only occur after large clinical trials demonstrate improvements and individual pat...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Knezevic CE,Clarke W

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral fluid (OF) is being developed as a specimen for the determination of drug intake as an alternative to serum and plasma. It is generally considered as an attractive specimen due to the noninvasive nature of the sampling procedure and the relation to the free fraction of drug in the blood. These features ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Neumann J,Beck O,Dahmen N,Böttcher M

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an effective treatment for patients with cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and has been used for these patients in more than 70 nations. However, in Japan, HCQ has not been approved for CLE or SLE. To establish an appropriate therapeutic reg...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Morita S,Takahashi T,Yoshida Y,Yokota N

更新日期：2016-04-01 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