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  • Title: Simultaneous measurement of phenobarbital, phenytoin, primidone, ethosuximide, and carbamazepine in serum by high-pressure liquid chromatography.
    Author: Kabra PM, Stafford BE, Marton LJ.
    Journal: Clin Chem; 1977 Jul; 23(7):1284-8. PubMed ID: 17482.
    Abstract:
    We present a method for simultaneously determining five anticonvulsants [phenobarbital, phenytoin (diphenylhydantoin), primidone, ethosuximide, and carbamazepine] in as little as 25 microliters of serum. The proteins are precipitated with an acetonitrile solution containing hexobarbital as an internal standard. The anticonvulsants are eluted from a reversed-phase column with a mobile phase consisting of an acetonitrile/phosphate buffer (19/81 by vol) at a flow rate of 3.0 ml/min. The eluted drugs are detected by their absorption at 195 nm, and quantities estimated from their peak heights. Each analysis requires about 14 min. at an optimum column temperature of 50 degrees C. The lower unit of detection for all of these drugs is less than 10 ng. Sensitivities, for serum samples, of 1.0 mg/liter for all the drugs analyzed are attained routinely. Analytical recoveries for the five drugs varied from 97 - 107%, with good day-to-day precision (CV between 3.9 and 5.9%). Of more than 30 drugs tested for possible interference, only ethotoin interferes with the analysis of phenobarbital.
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