Liquid chromatographic determination of the plasma concentrations of cefotaxime and desacetylcefotaxime in plasma of critically ill patients |
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Authors: | Rosseel M T Vandewoude K H |
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Institution: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. marietherese.rosseel@ugent.be |
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Abstract: | A method for the simultaneous determination of cefotaxime (CTX) and desacetylcefotaxime (DES) in plasma was developed, using acetonitrile protein precipitation and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with UV-detection at 285 nm. Desacetylcefotaxime was also analysed after conversion in highly acidic medium to its lactone form (DES-lactone). The chromatographic separation was performed on a C18 Aqua column. The lower limit of quantitation was 1 microg/ml for CTX and 0.5 microg/ml for DES and DES-lactone, using 25 microl of plasma samples. The linearity of the calibration curves was satisfactory as indicated by correlation coefficients of > or =0.990. The within-day and between-day precisions were <12% (n = 18) for the two products and the accuracy was between 88 and 101%. The developed HPLC method was applied for CTX and DES determination in plasma samples of critically ill patients after continuous intravenous infusion of CTX. |
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