医学
咖啡因
唾液
药品
茶碱
治疗药物监测
药理学
生理学
内科学
作者
Amel Chaabane,Fatma Zohra Chioukh,Zohra Chadli,Nadia Ben Fredj,Karim Ben Ameur,Hayet Ben Hmida,Naceur A. Boughattas,Kamel Monastiri,Karim Aouam
出处
期刊:Therapie
[Elsevier]
日期:2017-12-01
卷期号:72 (6): 685-689
被引量:5
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.therap.2017.06.004
摘要
Evaluate whether saliva could be a useful alternative to serum for routine therapeutic drug monitoring of caffeine in preterm infants using the enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) assay.We conducted a prospective study including preterm infants (less than 34 weeks' amenorrhea) admitted to the intensive care and neonatal medicine department. All infants received 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25mg/kg/day of citrate caffeine intravenously from the first to the fifth day of birth, respectively. For each patient, two concomitant blood and saliva samples corresponding to the trough concentrations were collected 24hours after each caffeine dose. The caffeine concentrations were determined using the EMIT®2000 caffeine assay.Thirteen preterm infants were included. The saliva and the serum caffeine concentration increased proportionally to the administered dose. Saliva and serum kinetics were comparable and the saliva caffeine concentrations were correlated to the serum ones (r2=0.76).Saliva caffeine monitoring by EMIT is a valid, useful and safe alternative to serum in preterm infants.
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