A survey of therapeutic drug monitoring services in Malaysia
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A Review on Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Immunosuppressant Drugs
Immunosuppressants require therapeutic drug monitoring because of their narrow therapeutic index and significant inter-individual variability in blood concentrations. This variability can be because of factors like drug-nutrient interactions, drug-disease interactions, renal-insufficiency, inflammation and infection, gender, age, polymorphism and liver mass. Drug monitoring is widely practiced ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1319-0164
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsps.2012.01.002