title: Liquid-chromatographic determination of amiodarone and N-desethylamiodarone in serum.
abstract: We have developed a stable and simple normal-phase liquid-chromatographic method for simultaneously measuring amiodarone and its metabolite, N-desethylamiodarone, within 8 min. The chromatographic system consists of a 15 cm x 3.9 mm Waters "Resolve" silica column and a mobile phase of ammonium sulfate (17 mmol/L, pH 6.8) and methanol (8/92 by vol), pumped at 1.8 mL/min and monitored at 254 nm. After 250 microL of serum is mixed with 100 microL of 0.36 mol/L NaH2PO4, 100 microL of the internal standard solution (L8040, 6 mg/L), and 200 microL of isopropyl ether, the mixture is vortex-mixed and centrifuged. Fifty microliters of the organic layer is injected onto the column. Relative recovery was 100% over the assay range of 0.1 to 20.0 mg/L for both compounds. Within-run and total (day-to-day) CVs were 3% and 7% for amiodarone and 5% and 8% for N-desethylamiodarone, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston 77030.
authors.forename: C N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Ou
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Rognerud
authors.forename: L T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Duong
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Frawley
mesh_terms: D000638:Amiodarone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000097:blood*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D012044:Regression Analysis
chemical_list: C036116:desethylamiodarone; D000638:Amiodarone