• DOI:10.1097/FTD.0b013e31827c11e7
Corpus ID: 15338188

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antiepileptic Drugs by Use of Saliva

@article{Patsalos2013TherapeuticDM,
  title={Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antiepileptic Drugs by Use of Saliva},
  author={P. Patsalos and D. Berry},
  journal={Therapeutic Drug Monitoring},
  year={2013},
  volume={35},
  pages={4–29}
}

P. Patsalos, D. Berry

Published 2013

Medicine

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Abstract:Blood (serum/plasma) antiepileptic drug (AED) therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) has proven to be an invaluable surrogate marker for individualizing and optimizing the drug management of patients with epilepsy. Since 1989, there has been an exponential increase in AEDs with 23 currently licensed for clinical use, and recently, there has been renewed and extensive interest in the use of saliva as an alternative matrix for AED TDM. The advantages of saliva include the fact that for many… CONTINUE READING

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