Stability of tacrolimus (FK 506) and cyclosporin G in whole blood.

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：:This study examined whether salivary nicotine concentrations would provide a useful index of plasma concentrations in studies of the effects of transdermal nicotine administration. Twenty-four subject smokers abstained from smoking for 12 h prior to admission to a clinical research unit ward and for 36 h while remaini...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Rose JE,Levin ED,Benowitz N

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has largely improved in the biopharmaceutical era. These compounds, primarily tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, are effective, but some patients may show poor response, sometimes because of the presence of antidrug antibodies (ADAs). In some instances, clinicians may in...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Medina F,Plasencia C,Goupille P,Ternant D,Balsa A,Mulleman D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-two serum samples from 28 pediatric epileptic patients under treatment with phenytoin [diphenylhydantoin (DPH)] were obtained to study the correlation between total and free serum DPH concentrations. The effect of coadministered antiepileptic drugs on DPH protein binding was also studied. Binding of DPH to serum...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Johno I,Kuzuya T,Suzuki K,Hasegawa M,Nakamura T,Kitazawa S,Aso K,Watanabe K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Clinical Pharmacology Quality Assurance (CPQA) program provides semiannual proficiency testing (PT) of antiretroviral analytes for 11 US and international clinical pharmacology laboratories (CPLs) to ensure interlaboratory comparability. In this article, we provide estimates of the main sources of variab...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Browne RW,Rosenkranz SL,Wang Y,Taylor CR,DiFrancesco R,Morse GD

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stabilized therapeutic drug monitoring procedure incorporating the novel Empore solid-phase extraction membrane (SPEM) for isolation of the antiarrhythmic drugs mexiletine (MEX) and flecainide (FLEC) from serum is described. Routinely, serum (0.5 ml), adjusted to pH 4.5, is passed through an octyl (C8) SPEM to extra...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Lensmeyer GL,Wiebe DA,Doran TC

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the predictive value of the risperidone and venlafaxine metabolic ratios and CYP2D6 genotype. METHODS:The determination of risperidone, 9-hydroxyrisperidone, and venlafaxine, O-desmethylvenlafaxine, N-desmethylvenlafaxine and CYP2D6 genotype was performed in 425 and 491 patients, respectively. T...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Mannheimer B,Haslemo T,Lindh JD,Eliasson E,Molden E

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study assessed the removal of mycophenolic acid (MPA) and its major glucuronide metabolite (MPAG) during continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVHF) and continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF) in 4 heart transplant recipients treated for at least 6 days with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in addition to cyc...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Cussonneau X,Bolon-Larger M,Prunet-Spano C,Bastien O,Boulieu R

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tacrolimus (TAC) has a narrow therapeutic index and high interindividual and intraindividual pharmacokinetic variability, necessitating therapeutic drug monitoring to individualize dosage. Recent evidence suggests that intragraft TAC concentrations may better predict transplant outcomes. This study aimed to ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Noll BD,Coller JK,Somogyi AA,Morris RG,Russ GR,Hesselink DA,Van Gelder T,Sallustio BC

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racemic methadone is increasingly used to manage cancer pain. The authors studied 13 terminally ill patients with cancer pain, who underwent switching (rotation) from morphine to methadone. The relationship between initial morphine dose and final methadone dose, the pharmacokinetics of R- and S- methadone, and the deg...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Auret K,Roger Goucke C,Ilett KF,Page-Sharp M,Boyd F,Oh TE

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two separate studies were carried out to assess the effect of valproic acid on the steady-state plasma concentrations of clozapine and its major metabolites norclozapine and clozapine N-oxide in psychotic patients. In the first study, concentrations of clozapine and metabolites were compared between patients treated w...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Facciolà G,Avenoso A,Scordo MG,Madia AG,Ventimiglia A,Perucca E,Spina E

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of pH-induced changes of drug binding may contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms involved and the clinical relevance. A literature search was performed, and acceptance criteria set up, to select reported data for quantitative evaluation. The relationship between percentage of unbound drug, fu, a...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Hinderling PH,Hartmann D

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs metabolized by cytochrome CYP3A isoenzymes have wide interindividual variability and normally distributed plasma clearance distributions. This makes precise dosing difficult to achieve clinically, which may compromise safe therapy. We hypothesized that with potent inhibition of CYP3A, we could clinically render ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Tham LS,Lee HS,Wang L,Yong WP,Fan L,Ong AB,Sukri N,Soo R,Lee SC,Goh BC

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study over 6 months, the relationship between serum lipid parameters and CsA whole blood trough concentrations was investigated in 39 renal transplant recipients receiving a triple immunosuppressive therapy with cyclosporin (CsA), azathioprine and prednisone. CsA trough concentrations were measured wi...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： von Ahsen N,Helmhold M,Schütz E,Eisenhauer T,Armstrong VW,Oellerich M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preferred dose of netilmicin was determined in each of 39 patients with severe gram-negative sepsis treated at two centres. The dose was based upon the attainment of recommended serum concentrations. Patient age varied from 18 to 87 years (mean 58), estimated creatinine clearance from 20 to 150 ml/min (mean 71), a...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Batra HK,Mawer GE,Ganguli LA,Keaney MG,Noone P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to establish whether plasma lidocaine concentrations changed subsequent to contact with a new formulation of rubber-stopper Vacutainer collection tubes. Plasma lidocaine concentrations from blood samples exposed to rubber stoppers for one hour were compared with concentrations from blood sample...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Lopez LM,Sen A,Robinson JD,Curry RW Jr

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to model the relationship between clonazepam plasma concentrations and a central nervous system adverse effect (impairment of the psychomotor performance) following the oral administration of immediate-release tablets of clonazepam in healthy volunteers. Such a (P)pharmacokinetic/(P)pharmacod...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： dos Santos FM,Gonçalves JC,Caminha R,da Silveira GE,Neves CS,Gram KR,Ferreira CT,Jacqmin P,Noël F

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to conduct an assessment of patient and parental preferences and an economic analysis of hospital costs in sampling blood and saliva for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). Costs and preferences were evaluated in the course of a study, which compared anticonvulsant concentrations in bloo...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Gorodischer R,Burtin P,Hwang P,Levine M,Koren G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to mycophenolic acid (MPA) is highly variable among patients on standard dose mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) therapy. In addition, MPA exposure increases with time posttransplant and exposure is predictive for the development of acute rejection. Consequently, therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of MPA may improve ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： van Hest RM,Mathot RA,Vulto AG,Ijzermans JN,van Gelder T

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are often prescribed posttransplantation to prevent gastrointestinal complications. A series of recent studies have reported a relationship between PPI comedication and decreased mycophenolic acid (MPA) exposure. The objective of this subanalysis of the CLEAR data set was to d...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Kiberd BA,Wrobel M,Dandavino R,Keown P,Gourishankar S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) (TDx, Abbott Laboratories Diagnostics, Irvin, TX, U.S.A.) is commonly utilized for quantitative determination of gentamicin serum concentrations. Recently, automated homogeneous latex agglutination (LA) (Technicon Immuno-1, Miles Diagnostics Division, Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A.)...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Madaras-Kelly KJ,Mihalovic S,Zittel D,Ehresman D,Lakatua DJ,Rotschafer JC

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:Caffeine is a potentially useful alternative to theophylline for the treatment and prevention of apnea of prematurity because of its lower toxicity and longer terminal half-life. Monitoring of salivary caffeine concentrations is less invasive than blood sampling, especially in very sick premature neonates. Caffeine ci...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Lee TC,Charles BG,Steer PA,Flenady VJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Beta-lactams are first-line antibiotics for the management of superficial infections due to burn injury. There is sparse data available on therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in patients with burns in a ward setting. This study was conducted to evaluate the utility of a beta-lactam TDM program in a cohort of b...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Patel BM,Paratz J,See NC,Muller MJ,Rudd M,Paterson D,Briscoe SE,Ungerer J,McWhinney BC,Lipman J,Roberts JA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenytoin is an anticonvulsant that requires therapeutic drug monitoring. Recently, Bayer HealthCare, Diagnostics Division released a turbidimetric immunoassay of phenytoin on the ADVIA 1650 analyzer. We evaluated the analytic performance of this assay by comparing values obtained in 52 patients receiving Phenytoin us...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Datta P,Scurlock D,Dasgupta A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxylation of midazolam (MDZ) is mediated almost exclusively by CYP3A isoforms. The authors describe a high-performance liquid chromatography assay involving MDZ, 1'-hydroxymidazolam, and 4-hydroxymidazolam in plasma. The compounds were eluted on an Ultrasphere ODS, 3-microm particle size, 7.5 cm x 4.6 mm reversed-...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Carrillo JA,Ramos SI,Agundez JA,Martinez C,Benitez J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic parameters of half-life, volume of distribution, and steady-state nortriptyline plasma concentration normalized to a 100-mg/day maintenance dose were calculated in nine smokers and 15 nonsmokers. The mean normalized total nortriptyline concentration for the smokers of 118 +/- 33 ng/ml was significa...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Perry PJ,Browne JL,Prince RA,Alexander B,Tsuang MT

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals show large interindividual variation in response to antiretroviral therapy. Efavirenz (EFV) and nevirapine (NVP) are nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, which are prescribed in combination with other antiretroviral therapy in so-called highl...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Heil SG,van der Ende ME,Schenk PW,van der Heiden I,Lindemans J,Burger D,van Schaik RH

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00