Ribavirin therapeutic drug monitoring: why, when and how?

Fundam Clin Pharmacol

Service de Pharmacologie-toxicologie, INSERM ERI17, Univ Grenoble, CHU Grenoble, France.

Published: August 2010

Recent studies suggest the potential interest of ribavirin therapeutic drug monitoring to improve sustain virological response rate in hepatitis C virus-infected patients. The present review details the pharmacokinetic properties of ribavirin, suggesting that it may be a good candidate for therapeutic drug monitoring, the different possible strategies and the analytical methods that could be employed.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-8206.2009.00778.xDOI Listing

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