ArticleTherapeutic drug monitoring2018
Comparative Analysis of Ampicillin Plasma and Dried Blood Spot Pharmacokinetics in Neonates.
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Pharmacokinetics of Understudied Drugs Administered to Children Per Standard of Care
Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Safety Profile of Understudied Drugs
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Population pharmacokinetic modeling and simulation-informed ceftazidime dosing in Chinese neonates using quantitative dried blood spot micro-sampling.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2026Article
- Creativity in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology: Study Design and Oral Dosage Forms.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2024Article
- Dried Blood Spots-A Platform for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) and Drug/Disease Response Monitoring (DRM).European journal of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics · 2023Review
- A Validated UHPLC-MS/MS Method to Quantify Eight Antibiotics in Quantitative Dried Blood Spots in Support of Pharmacokinetic Studies in Neonates.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Use of Antibiotics in Preterm Newborns.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Infection control and other stewardship strategies in late onset sepsis, necrotizing enterocolitis, and localized infection in the neonatal intensive care unit.Seminars in perinatology · 2020Article
- Therapeutic drug monitoring of tacrolimus and mycophenolic acid in outpatient renal transplant recipients using a volumetric dried blood spot sampling device.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundDried blood spot (DBS) is a practical sampling strategy for pharmacokinetic studies in neonates. The utility of DBS to determine the population pharmacokinetics (pop-PK) of ampicillin, as well as accuracy versus plasma samples, was evaluated.
methodsAn open-label, multicenter, opportunistic, prospective study was conducted in neonates. Ampicillin concentrations from plasma and DBS (CONCPlasma and CONCDBS) were measured by liquid chromatographic tandem mass spectrometry and analyzed using pop-PK and statistical (including transformation) approaches.
resultsA total of 29 paired plasma and DBS samples from 18 neonates were analyzed. The median (range) gestational age and postnatal age were 37 (27-41) weeks and 8 (1-26) days, respectively. The geometric mean of CONCDBS to CONCPlasma ratio was 0.56. Correlation analysis demonstrated strong association between CONCPlasma and CONCDBS (r = 0.902, analysis of variance P < 0.001). Using linear regression transformation, the estimated CONCPlasma (eCONCPlasma) was derived using (CONCDBS - 3.223)/0.51. The median bias and geometric mean ratio improved to -11% and 0.88 (Wilcoxon signed-rank test, P < 0.001), respectively, when comparing eCONCPlasma to CONCPlasma. Furthermore, using pop-PK modeling, the median bias (interquartile range) for clearance and individual predicted concentrations improved to 8% (-11 to 50) and -8% (-34 to 11), respectively, when eCONCPlasma was used.
conclusionsAfter transformation, DBS sampling accurately predicted ampicillin exposure in neonates.
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