abstract：:We describe a patient with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy in which therapeutic drug monitoring and individualization of therapy by measuring voriconazole plasma concentrations were performed. ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Brüggemann RJ,Antonius T,Heijst Av,Hoogerbrugge PM,Burger DM,Warris A

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:The aim of this study was to investigate the use of psychotropic medication and therapeutic drug monitoring in a high-security psychiatric unit and to compare the doses and serum concentrations both with the recommended intervals and with the doses and serum concentrations in a control group. One hundred thirty-two pa...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Castberg I,Spigset O

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the pharmacokinetics of naloxone in healthy volunteers, we undertook an open-label crossover study in which six male volunteers received naloxone on five occasions: intravenous (0.8 mg), intramuscular (0.8 mg), intranasal (0.8 mg), intravenous (2 mg), and intranasal (2 mg). Samples were collected for 4 ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Dowling J,Isbister GK,Kirkpatrick CM,Naidoo D,Graudins A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study develops a population pharmacokinetic model for lamotrigine (LTG) in Spanish and German patients diagnosed with epilepsy. LTG steady-state plasma concentration data from therapeutic drug monitoring were collected retrospectively from 600 patients, with a total of 1699 plasma drug concentrations. The data we...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Rivas N,Buelga DS,Elger CE,Santos-Borbujo J,Otero MJ,Domínguez-Gil A,García MJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentration monitoring and dose individualization is required to optimize either tacrolimus or cyclosporin therapy. In this study, the validation of a simple, rapid high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous measurement of tacrolimus and cyclosporin in whole blood is ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Salm P,Taylor PJ,Rooney F

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:In the last few years, significant developments have occurred on the key issues involved in oral fluid drug testing. New pharmacokinetic studies have been conducted, optimal cutoffs have been proposed, and new studies have examined the correlation between oral fluid drug concentrations and impairment. Recent studies (...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Pil K,Verstraete A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of gestational ethanol exposure and subsequent fetal exposure has been assessed in a cohort of mother-infant dyads in a Mediterranean city (Barcelona, Spain) by meconium analysis of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs) after showing in this population a high prevalence of meconium opiates (8.7%), cocaine (4....

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Garcia-Algar O,Kulaga V,Gareri J,Koren G,Vall O,Zuccaro P,Pacifici R,Pichini S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monitoring of plasma olanzapine concentrations has been found to be an important and useful tool for optimizing psychiatric treatment. The present study investigated the effect that clinical factors, such as smoking and age, and functional polymorphisms of UGT1A4, CYP1A2, and CYP2D6 genes have on plasma olanzapine...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Nozawa M,Ohnuma T,Matsubara Y,Sakai Y,Hatano T,Hanzawa R,Shibata N,Arai H

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Effect of diabetes mellitus on mycophenolic acid (MPA) pharmacokinetics and catalytic activity of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) was investigated in maintenance kidney transplant recipients. Demographically matched diabetic (n=9) and nondiabetic (n=9) patients were included in a 12-hour open-label, steady...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Patel CG,Richman K,Yang D,Yan B,Gohh RY,Akhlaghi F

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population pharmacokinetic model was developed after administration of orogastric and/or intravenous indomethacin for the treatment of patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants. Plasma indomethacin concentrations (n=227) were obtained from 90 preterm infants of median gestational age 27 weeks, mean postnatal age o...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Al Za'abi M,Donovan T,Tudehope D,Woodgate P,Collie LA,Charles B

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunosuppressive potential of mycophenolic acid (MPA) correlates well with MPA exposure [area under the concentration-time curve (AUC)]. Monitoring MPA AUC is important and helpful for maintaining the efficacy of mycophenolate mofetil while minimizing its side effects, but full MPA AUC monitoring is laborious, co...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Zicheng Y,Xianghui W,Peijun Z,Da X,Weixia Z,Hongzhuan C

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:A model for predicting unbound concentrations of mycophenolic acid (MPA) was developed in 84 subjects and then tested in an independent group of 19 hematopoietic cell transplant recipients. Total and unbound MPA concentrations and total mycophenolic glucuronide concentrations were measured between weeks 1 and 4 posttr...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Huang J,Jacobson P,Brundage R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors refer to their experience with alternative matrices to supervise the methadone therapy of heroin abusers. For this purpose, hair, sweat, and urine samples were collected from 10 heroin addicts and from a control group and were submitted to gas chromatographic/mass spectroscopic analysis for methadone and i...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Fucci N,De Giovanni N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergotamine has been used for therapeutic purposes since the 1950s, usually to treat vascular headache. It is highly toxic and in large, repeated doses can produce all the symptoms of ergot poisoning. A selective and sensitive method, based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS2), has been developed ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Favretto D,Frison G,Vogliardi S,Ferrara SD

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of low-dose, ritonavir-boosted saquinavir (SQV/rtv) once daily plus 2 nucleoside retrotranscriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) in pregnant human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1-infected women was prospectively evaluated, ensuring a SQV minimum concentration (Cmin) >/=100 ng/mL with a therapeutic drug monitoring st...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Lopez-Cortes LF,Ruiz-Valderas R,Rivero A,Camacho A,Marquez-Solero M,Santos J,García-Lazaro M,Viciana P,Rodriguez-Baños J,Ocampo A

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:The pharmacokinetics of senkyunolide A, one of the major bioactive ingredients in the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Rhizoma Chuanxiong, which is commonly used for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, was studied in rats. After intravenous (IV) administration, senkyunolide A was extensively distributed (Vd/F:...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Yan R,Lin G,Ko NL,Tam YK

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that monitoring predose plasma levels of mycophenolic acid (MPA) is of benefit in renal transplant recipients treated with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF). Concomitant treatment with oral antibiotics leads to a 10% to 30% reduction in MPA area under the curve (AUC)0-12, probably by reducing en...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Borrows R,Chusney G,Loucaidou M,James A,Van Tromp J,Cairns T,Griffith M,Hakim N,McLean A,Palmer A,Papalois V,Taube D

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess dose-related steady-state serum concentrations of olanzapine (OLZ) and its metabolites N-desmethyl OLZ (DMO) and 2-hydroxymethyl OLZ (2-OH-OLZ) (assessed by high-performance liquid chromatography) in 122 child and adolescent psychiatric patients (age 16.9 +/- 2.2, range, 10-21 years...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Theisen FM,Haberhausen M,Schulz E,Fleischhaker C,Clement HW,Heinzel-Gutenbrunner M,Remschmidt H

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prescribed daily doses (PDDs) of antiepileptic drugs (AED) (N03A ATC group) were recorded for drugs used in monotherapy or in combination therapy in the University Hospitals in Ostrava, Czech Republic and Huddinge, Sweden. Plasma concentrations were used as an indicator of the quality of treatment. PDDs were compared ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Koristkova B,Sjöqvist F,Grundmann M,Bergman U

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lopinavir is one of the most-widely used protease inhibitors in the treatment of HIV-1 infected patients. Concentration-effect relationships have been described for both antiviral activity and toxicity. Less is known about patient characteristics that may determine interpatient variability in lopinavir plasma concentr...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： van der Leur MR,Burger DM,la Porte CJ,Koopmans PP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and simple procedure based on gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is described for determination of Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), 11-hydroxy-Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC-OH) and 11-nor-Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carboxylic acid (THC-COOH) in meconium using Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta-TH...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Marchei E,Pellegrini M,Pacifici R,Palmi I,Lozano J,García-Algar O,Pichini S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and sensitive column-switching high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the simultaneous determination of itraconazole (ITZ) and its active metabolite, hydroxyitraconazole (HIT) in human plasma is described. ITZ, HIT, and an internal standard, R051012, were extracted from 1 mL of alkalinized plasma ...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Uno T,Shimizu M,Sugawara K,Tateishi T

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of rifampicin on the single oral dose pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of brotizolam. Thirteen healthy male volunteers received rifampicin 450 mg/day, or matched placebo, for 7 days in a double-blind randomized crossover manner. On the sixth day they rec...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Ujiie Y,Fukasawa T,Yasui-Furukori N,Suzuki A,Tateishi T,Otani K

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Euthyroid women experience dramatic changes in their thyroid physiology in order to accommodate the presence of placental and fetal tissues. These adaptations to the pregnant state make it crucial to develop reliable trimester-specific intervals for thyroid parameters. Use of non-pregnant reference intervals could lea...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Bach-Huynh TG,Jonklaas J

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Amprenavir is an HIV-1 protease inhibitor with high protein binding (90%) in human plasma. This study was designed to develop an assay to measure the concentration of unbound amprenavir, to study variation with time in patients, and to investigate whether ritonavir and lopinavir, other protease inhibitors that could b...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Barrail A,Le Tiec C,Paci-Bonaventure S,Furlan V,Vincent I,Taburet AM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old man on chronic hemodialysis for end-stage renal disease developed peritoneal carcinomatosis, and palliative chemotherapy with fluorouracil was started. The drug was administered (325 mg/m as IV bolus, at 2 PM) on 2 separate occasions, ie, 1 hour after dialysis and 2 days later, 49 hours after dialysis. T...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Gusella M,Rebeschini M,Cartei G,Ferrazzi E,Ferrari M,Padrini R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to determine the relationship between saliva and plasma methadone concentrations and the influence of variability in saliva pH. Saliva and plasma samples were taken before the daily dose of methadone in 60 patients undergoing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). Saliva pH was measured imm...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Shiran MR,Hassanzadeh-Khayyat M,Iqbal MZ,Lagundoye O,Seivewright N,Lennard MS,Tucker GT,Rostami-Hodjegan A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism of thiopurine drugs--azathioprine, 6-mercaptopurine, and 6-thioguanine--has provided a powerful pharmacogenetic model incorporating polymorphism of the enzyme thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) and the primary active metabolite, thioguanine nucleotide (TGN). However, a sense of uncertainty about the useful...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Duley JA,Florin TH

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are data suggesting an association between mycophenolic acid (MPA) levels and acute rejection and toxicity in renal transplant recipients treated with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), and therefore, knowledge of factors determining MPA levels may aid in accurate adjustment of MMF dosage. A total of 4970 samples take...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Borrows R,Chusney G,James A,Stichbury J,Van Tromp J,Cairns T,Griffith M,Hakim N,McLean A,Palmer A,Papalois V,Taube D

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)-based screening procedure was developed for the detection of diuretics, uricosurics, and/or their metabolites in human urine after extractive methylation. Phase-transfer catalyst remaining in the organic phase was removed by solid-phase extraction on a diol phase. The com...

journal_title：Therapeutic drug monitoring

authors： Beyer J,Bierl A,Peters FT,Maurer HH

更新日期：2005-08-01 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