Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Phenytoin by Simple, Rapid, Accurate, Highly Sensitive and Novel Method and Its Clinical Applications.

Journal: Current pharmaceutical biotechnology
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Phenytoin has very challenging pharmacokinetic properties. To prevent its toxicity and ensure efficacy, continuous therapeutic monitoring is required. It is hard to get a simple, accurate, rapid, easily available, economical and highly sensitive assay in one method for therapeutic monitoring of phenytoin.

Authors

  • Abdul S Shaikh
    Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
  • Ruichen Guo
    Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China.