TDM and Drug Assays Flashcards
What is TDM impacted by?
- Demograhics factors
- He;ath rwltaed factors
- extracorporeal Treamentets
4.. Personalf factors - ADME
Specimane types - Most common
- venous blood
- serum
- Plasma
- urine - not as commonly used
What is phlebpotmy
the drawing of blood from the body
what is the common site for blood draws?
mediam cubital vein or any vein in arm
Tube types -
What do plasma tubes need?
anticogulants
Tube types -
What do serum tubes need?
blood clotting - fibrinogen
tube types - what are the top 4?
- plan tube - serum (red)
- Plain tube with SST gel - serum (orange)
- EDTA - anticoagulants - plasma (Pink)
- Lithium heparin anticoagulant - plasma (green)
what is centrifugtaion?
part of specimen processing so specimen separtes based on desnity
adtanvage of centirfugation?
these specimens then have np cells and are much cleaner allowing fro photometric analysis
- separator gel
what are the four pre analytic factors
- Drug dpsing accurancy
- appropreite sampling time
- handlcing and collection of sample
- physiological changes in patient
what are some specimen clean up or purification mean?
- centrifugation
- proetin precipitaion
- liquid-liquid extraction
- solid phase extraction
- chromatogrpahy
- ultrafiltration
measuring free drug level via what tecnique?
immunoassay
Free drug or bound drug, active?
free drug
what drugs are specically important to monitor free drug levels?
Phenytoin
Valproic acid
Carbamazapine
Specimen processing: free drug measurement when and why?
-4 points
- meausremnt of serum drug concetration may be misleading fro highly;y protein bound drugs
- under conditions of uremie, liver disease and hypoalbuminemia, free drug levels may be high however the drug levels are in therapeutic range
- drug -drug interaction may lead to increased free drug levels
- in elderly they have hypoalbunemic so increased free drug concentration
how to measure a freed drug if we have bound drig?
must separte so can use ultrfiltration
must have assay with good analytical sensitivity
cons of free-drug measuring (3)
- more costly and lower accuracy
- more time and resources (highly sensitive to temp, ph)
- thought to be similar to Total drug levels as long as free drug levels don’t vary much between people
Immunoassay methods vs chromatography method
Immunoassay
- less labor entensive and faster turn around
- limited by lack of spcificay between parent drug and metabolite (potential false positive) and cross-reactivity with similar drugs
- susceptible to interfere by bilirubin and lipedemmia, hemoglobin, paraproetins and heterophiloc antibodies
Chromatogprhy
- liquid chromotpgarhy - tandem mass chemtogaprhy can simultaneously analyse multiple drugs in a single assay
- typically higher specificity for the drug
TDM - immunassays, gas chromatogrpahy, and liquid chromatogrphay
Immunoassays
- for over 25 commercial assays
gas chromatography
- flame ionization detection/mass spectrometry
liquid chromatography
- UV/flurescence/mass spec
Immunoassays pros and cons
pros
- rapid
- sensitive
- loe cost
- small sample size
- mainly vis plasma or serum
cons
- major concern is antibody specificity
Propeties of an antibody- antigen bond
- non-cavalent
- reversible
- intermolecualr focres (hydrongen bonding, ionic bonding, hydrophobic interactions, van der wall forces)
- clonal varaition
antigen antibody bonding causes what?
structual changes consistent with indiced fit mec