High‐performance liquid chromatographic determination of Levetiracetam in human plasma: comparison of different sample clean‐up procedures
- 11 December 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Biomedical Chromatography
- Vol. 18 (1), 37-44
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bmc.289
Abstract
An accurate and precise high‐performance liquid chromatographic method using diode array detection for the determination of the novel antiepileptic, Levetiracetam, has been developed. Three clean‐up procedures for the analysis of Levetiracetam in human plasma were implemented and evaluated, namely solid‐phase extraction, deproteinization by addition of organic solvents and formation of insoluble salts. Adenosine was used as the internal standard for all three sample pretreatment procedures. Among the several cartridges used for solid‐phase extraction, the hydrophilic–lypophilic balance (Oasis® HLB) phase provides the best extraction yield of Levetiracetam, together with high precision. With the two other clean‐up procedures involving plasma deproteinization by addition of methanol or zinc sulphate, lower sensitivity and precision of the assays were obtained. However, they are cheaper and faster when compared with the solid‐phase extraction procedure. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords
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