Therapeutic drug monitoring of linezolid: HPLC-based assays for routine quantification of linezolid in human serum and cerebrospinal fluid

2022 ◽  
pp. ejhpharm-2021-003036
Author(s):  
Stefan Günther ◽  
Andreas Reimer ◽  
Horst Vogl ◽  
Stephan Spenke ◽  
Hanns-Christian Dinges ◽  
...  
mSphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory R. Wiedman ◽  
Yanan Zhao ◽  
David S. Perlin

ABSTRACT Clinicians need a better way to accurately monitor the concentration of antimicrobials in patient samples. In this report, we describe a novel, low-sample-volume method to monitor the azole-class antifungal drug posaconazole, as well as certain other long-chain azole-class antifungal drugs in human serum samples. Posaconazole represents an important target for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) due to its widespread use in treating invasive fungal infections and well-recognized variability of pharmacokinetics. The current “gold standard” requires trough and peak monitoring through high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) or liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS). Other methods include bioassays that use highly susceptible strains of fungi in culture plates or 96-well formats to monitor concentrations. Currently, no method exists that is both highly accurate in detecting free drug concentrations and is also rapid. Herein, we describe a new method using reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and a fluorescently labeled aptamer, which can accurately assess clinically relevant concentrations of posaconazole and other long-chain azole-class drugs in little more than 1 h in a total volume of 100 µl. IMPORTANCE This work describes an effective assay for TDM of long-chain azole-class antifungal drugs that can be used in diluted human serum samples. This assay will provide a quick, cost-effective method for monitoring concentrations of drugs such as posaconazole that exhibit well-documented pharmacokinetic variability. Our rGO-aptamer assay has the potential to improve health care for those struggling to treat fungal infections in rural or resource-limited setting.


2016 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 485-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Fornasaro ◽  
Silvia Dalla Marta ◽  
Marco Rabusin ◽  
Alois Bonifacio ◽  
Valter Sergo

To date, in spite of their toxicity, the plasmatic concentration of most chemotherapeutic drugs is difficult to monitor in oncological patients, because their quantitative determination is expensive and time consuming. This contribution reports a first attempt for the direct quantitative determination of a chemotherapeutic drug in human serum samples by means of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). In this study, SERS substrates constituted by Au nanoparticles deposited on paper by a simple dipping method have been used for rapid (few minutes) analysis of diluted human serum spiked with different concentrations of methotrexate, MTX. The drug concentrations were chosen in a range designed to cover typical therapeutic plasmatic values (from nanomolar to millimolar) in oncological patients, and the pertinent calibration was obtained by Partial Least-Squares Regression (PLSR). Stability selection was employed to evaluate the capability of the PLSR model to accurately predict and extract spectral variations correlated to MTX concentration. Such a quantitative determination is crucial for frequent, and hence adherent, therapeutic drug monitoring, TDM, of chemiotherapic drugs, given their heavy side effects. Its low cost, rapid response and the possibility of obtaining spectra with simple and compact instruments, make SERS particularly apt for implementing effective TDM. The promising results obtained in the analytical validation indicate which steps are to be taken on the way toward a clinical validation with real samples from oncological patients, for MTX as well as for other chemotherapeutic drugs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Sistik ◽  
Romana Urinovska ◽  
Hana Brozmanova ◽  
Ivana Kacirova ◽  
Petr Silhan ◽  
...  

Therapies ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 529-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imen Aouinti ◽  
Rim Charfi ◽  
Sameh Trabelsi ◽  
Emna Gaïes ◽  
Issam Salouage ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Fang ◽  
Ning Li ◽  
Chunli Xu ◽  
Rong Tan ◽  
Jihong Yang ◽  
...  

Objective: To develop a rapid ultra-performance liquid chromatographic (UHPLC)-UV method for vancomycin determination in human serum for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). Methods: Human serum samples were precipitated with 10% perchloric acid, and the supernatant after centrifugation was analyzed on an ACQUITY UHPLC BEH C18 column (2.1 × 50mm, 1.7 μm) via gradient elution with a flow rate at 0.3 mL/min. The mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile and 0.005M KH2PO4 buffer (containing 0.1% triethylamine, pH 3.4). The detection wavelength was set at 210 nm, and the column temperature was set at 40. The total runtime was 6.0 min per analysis. Results: After comprehensive validation, the method was applied to determine the concentration of vancomycin in human serum. The chromatographic peaks of vancomycin and internal standard were not interfered by endogenous matrixes. The retention time (RT) of vancomycin was 1.91 min, while the internal standard was 1.58 min. The good linearity range of vancomycin concentration was 2.5-120 μg/mL (R2>0.999). The lower limit of quantitation (LLOQ) was 2.5 μg/mL. The precision at three quality control (QC) levels (including LLOQ) was restricted within 85-115%. The extraction recovery rate of QC samples (4.0, 20.0, 60.0 μg/mL) were 101.16%、97.70%、94.90%, respectively. Inter- and intra-day precision was less than 8% (RSD). Stability tests under different storage conditions were satisfactory. In patients, the concentration of vancomycin ranged from 7.30 to 89.12 μg/mL determined by the fully validated method. Conclusion: The simple, rapid sample pretreatment procedures and short analysis time made this UHPLC-UV method suitable for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of vancomycin.


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