1. Determination of orphenadrine plasma levels using HPLC with diode array detection and a novel solid-phase extraction procedure in psychiatric patients
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Maria Addolorata Saracino, L. Franchini, Maria Augusta Raggi, C. Petio, M. Vitali, M.A. Saracino, C. Petio, M. Vitali, L. Franchini, and M.A. Raggi
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Analyte ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Clinical Biochemistry ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Muscarinic Antagonists ,THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING ,High-performance liquid chromatography ,Analytical Chemistry ,Orphenadrine ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Humans ,Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome ,Sample preparation ,Solid phase extraction ,Psychiatry ,OVERDOSE ,Spectroscopy ,Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ,Chromatography ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,Chemistry ,Extraction (chemistry) ,DIODE ARRAY DETECTION ,SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION ,Therapeutic drug monitoring ,Schizophrenia ,Drug Monitoring ,Drug Overdose ,Quantitative analysis (chemistry) ,medicine.drug ,Antipsychotic Agents - Abstract
Orphenadrine is an antimuscarinic agent mainly used for the treatment of parkinsonism and to alleviate the neuroleptic syndrome induced by antipsychotic drugs. A new, rapid analytical method, based on liquid chromatography with diode array detection (DAD), has been developed and applied to the determination of orphenadrine in plasma of schizophrenic patients for therapeutic drug monitoring and toxicological purposes. The chromatographic separation was performed on a pentafluorophenyl reversed phase column with a mobile phase composed of acetonitrile–phosphate buffer mixture. DAD detection was carried out at 220 nm. A careful and rapid solid-phase extraction procedure on cyanopropyl cartridges was chosen for plasma sample purification and pre-concentration obtaining good extraction yield values for the analyte (>96.0%). The assays showed a linear response for orphenadrine (30–1000 ng mL−1). The method is also precise and selective. Thus, the method developed seems to be suitable for routine analysis of orphenadrine in psychiatric patients. Moreover, it was applied to plasma samples from a psychotic patient who had tried to poison himself with 1000 mg of orphenadrine and was undergoing polypharmacy.
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- 2009