With a little help from the patients: Automated measurement of tacrolimus from dried blood spots
Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of tacrolimus is mandatory because this immunosuppressive drug that is frequently prescribed in transplant patients, exhibits a high interpatient pharmacokinetic variability. This study explored the possibility of performing TDM using dried blood spots that can be collected by the patients themselves and that can be analysed by a fully-automated extraction module […]
