Conversion of cardiac and liver transplant recipients from HPLC and FPIA (polyclonal) to an FPIA (monoclonal) technique for measurement of blood cyclosporin A
✍ Scribed by James H. McBride; Steaven Kim; Denis O. Rodgerson; Ana Reyes
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-8013
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✦ Synopsis
In an effort to replace HPLC and FPIA (polyclonal) for whole blood determination of Cyclosporin A (CsA), this study examined the application of FPIA (monoclonal) in patients post cardiac and liver transplantation. The assay had a minimum detectable dose of 15 microg/L, an overall recovery of 97% and was linear to 1200 microg/L, and gave inter-assay precision values of < 5% (CV). On comparing FPIA (monoclonal) and HPLC for 59 cardiac transplant recipient blood samples, a correlation of FPIA (monoclonal) = 1.30 (HPLC) + 36.34, r = 0.96 was obtained. With liver transplant samples (n = 348), the correlation was FPIA (monoclonal) = 1.21 (HPLC) + 42.15, r = 0.98. Correlation on 131 cardiac transplant recipients gave FPIA (monoclonal) = 0.31 FPIA (polyclonal) + 43.97, r = 0.68. It is concluded that when converting from HPLC to FPIA (monoclonal) a positive bias of 21%-30% is observed, and in replacing FPIA (polyclonal) with FPIA (monoclonal), a negative bias of 50%-69% is seen with liver and cardiac patients respectively. These data indicate that therapeutic ranges should be re-established or adjustments in CsA dosing would be necessary.