Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry for therapeutic drug monitoring of voriconazole in heat-inactivated blood samples : its application during COVID-19 pandemic

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of heat inactivation (56℃for 30 min) of SARS-CoV-2 on the results of therapeuticdrug monitoring (TDM) of voriconazole by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).

METHODS: We collected clinical blood samples from voriconazole-treated patients in heparinized tubes and sterilized the surface of the tubes with 75% ethanol. The whole blood samples were centrifuged to separate the plasma with or without prior heat inactivation, or only the separated plasma was heat inactivated. Heat inactivation of the samples was carried out at 56 ℃ for 30 min followed by protein precipitation with acetonitrile or ethanol. The plasma standard and quality control samples were inactivated in an identical manner and tested with LC-MS/MS along with the treated samples.

RESULTS: The optimized method showed a high imprecision (with mean intra- and inter-day imprecisions of 3.59% and 2.81%, respectively) and a high accuracy (mean 97.37%) for detecting voriconazole in the inactivated samples at different concentration levels. Sample preparation with acetonitrile or ethanol resulted in a high mean recovery (100.56% or 95.90%) with minimal mean matrix effect (102.85% or 93.62%). The measured voriconazole concentrations in inactivated whole blood, inactivated plasma and the samples without inactivation all showed good linear correlations with correlation coefficients all greater than 0.99.

CONCLUSIONS: Heat inactivation at 56 ℃ for 30 min combined with ethanol sample preparation only has limited effects to affect LC-MS-based voriconazole concentration measurement in whole blood samples collected in heparinized tubes, and can be used for therapeutic drug monitoring of voriconazole during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:40

Enthalten in:

Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University - 40(2020), 3 vom: 30. März, Seite 342-345

Sprache:

Chinesisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhao, Boxin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Sijia [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Guofeng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qing [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
JFU09I87TR
Journal Article
Therapeutic drug monitoring
Voriconazole
Whole blood inactivation

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 11.05.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.12122/j.issn.1673-4254.2020.03.08

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM309599687