Therapeutic drug monitoring allows individualization of dosage regimen, ensuring the clinical efficacy and minimizing the adverse effects of prescribed drugs. Currently, statins have been monitored; despite they are effective, some statins have undesirable adverse effects. In this work, SPME technique and gas chromatography / mass spectrometry (GC-MS)were evaluated for analysis of statins (fluvastatin, simvastatin and atorvastatin) in human plasma for therapeutic drug monitoring. The extraction and derivatization conditions were optimized using experimental design and evaluating the influence of the main parameters involved in the SPME procedure. To optimize the extraction conditions were evaluated parameters such as time and extraction temperature, pH, volume of buffer and ionic strength, and to optimize the derivatization conditions were evaluated parameters as derivatization reagent volume, ionic agent pareador volume and pH. The extraction was performed using PDMS-DVB fibers, and thermal desorption performed in the injector of the gas chromatograph. The method was validated according to ANVISA, showing linearity in the range 20 to 500 ng mL -1 , the precision with coefficients of variation less than 14% and relative recovery from 20 to 40%. The proposed methodology was applied to real samples of plasma from patients on therapy with simvastatin provided by the Laboratório Médico Dr.Maricondi and Casa de Saúde of São Carlos.
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