the microsampling blog / Immunosuppressants (2)

When using immunosuppressive therapy drugs as an organ transplant recipient, it is crucial to effectively and consistently monitor drug levels. This requires therapeutic drug monitoring and an understanding of requirements …

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) immunosuppressants are a critical component of post-tissue and organ transplantation therapy. This is because ISP drugs have high intra- and inter-subject variability and a narrow therapeutic …

When administering immunosuppressants, clinicians need to individualize a patient’s drug therapy. The goal is to attain an optimal balance between therapeutic efficacy and the probability of adverse effects. Patients present …

For many organ transplant patients, immunosuppressant monitoring is a fact of life. But that does not mean that it cannot be significantly improved. For proof, look no further than the …

At the 2019 meeting of the American Transplant Congress, held this year in Boston, scientists from the Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet presented exciting findings regarding more patient-centered AUC-monitoring of tacrolimus, …

Capillary blood microsampling is a technique that has made collection and analysis of small, exact volumes of liquid matrices much simpler. Through capillary blood microsampling, tacrolimus monitoring has potentially become …