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Quantification of cyclosporine and tacrolimus in whole blood. Comparison of liquid chromatography–electrospray mass spectrometry with the enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique by Nicolas Ansermot; Marc Fathi; Jean-Luc Veuthey; Jules Desmeules; Serge Rudaz; Denis Hochstrasser is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Objectives: The aim of this work was to compare a validated liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) method with the commercial enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) for cyclosporine and tacrolimus whole blood quantification. Design and methods: Samples of transplant patients receiving cyclosporine (n = 38) or tacrolimus (n = 41) were analyzed successively by LC-MS and EMIT. Several statistical approaches for method comparison were evaluated and Passing-Bablok and Bland-Altman analyses chosen. Results: Overestimations of the concentrations measured with EMIT compared to LC-MS were observed with means of 23% (range: 6% to 46%) for cyclosporine and 30% (range: -3% to 73%) for tacrolimus. ## Conclusion: The EMIT demonstrated significant positive biases due to cross-reactions with metabolites. This indicates that, in some clinical situations, a selective method such as LC-MS is preferable for therapeutic drug monitoring in transplant patients.

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Author
Nicolas Ansermot; Marc Fathi; Jean-Luc Veuthey; Jules Desmeules; Serge Rudaz; Denis Hochstrasser
Publisher
Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0009-9120)
Published
2008
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)

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