Anibaletto Dos Santos AL, Cezimbra da Silva AC, de Lima Feltraco Lizot L, Schneider A, Hahn RZ, Meireles YF, Pagnussat LR, Nonnenmacher JL, Hahn SR, Linden R. Sensitive determination of gentamicin in plasma using ion-exchange solid-phase extraction followed by UHPLC-MS/MS analysis.
Pract Lab Med 2021;
26:e00246. [PMID:
34337126 PMCID:
PMC8318924 DOI:
10.1016/j.plabm.2021.e00246]
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Abstract
Background
Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of gentamicin sulfate (GEN) is usually recommended, particularly in critical patients. Only a few reports had described the determination of GEN in plasma or plasma using LC-MS/MS.
Objective
This study aimed to develop and validate a sensitive ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) assay for the quantification of GEN in small volumes of human plasma.
Results
The use of a very low concentration of the ion-pairing agent HFBA allowed significant retention of the very polar GEN forms in a reversed phase UHPLC column. The solid-phase extraction (SPE) procedure allowed clean extracts, with no interferences detected in blank samples, and high sensitivity. The assay was linear on the range of 0.2–40 mg L−1 of GEN complex. The combined GEN complex had inter-assay CV of 8.8–10.0%, intra-assay CV of 10.2–11.0%, and accuracy of 96.8–104.0%. The assay was applied to 17 clinical samples obtained from neonate patients. Measured concentrations were in the range of 0.15–3.57 mg L−1 for GEN C1, 0.12–3.55 mg L−1 for GEN C1a, 0.20–5.77 mg L−1 for GEN C2, and 0.47–12.88 mg L−1 for the GEN complex, all within the linear range of the assay.
Conclusion
A sensitive assay for the quantification of gentamicin in plasma using anion-exchange SPE and UHPLC-MS/MS was validated. The assay can be used for TDM of gentamicin, particularly in centers with access to proper instrumentation and with a low demand for gentamicin measurements, where immunoassays are not cost-effective.
Gentamicin was extracted from plasma using ion-exchange solid phase extraction.
Chromatographic conditions were previously applied for amikacin and vancomycin.
Gentamicin was measured with acceptable accuracy and precision using UHPLC-MS/MS.
The assay was sensitive and had a linear range covering clinically relevant concentrations.
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