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Investigation of propofol renal elimination by HPLC using supported liquid membrane procedure for sample preparation
Author(s) -
Dawidowicz Andrzej L.,
Kalityński Rafał,
Trocewicz Jerzy,
Nestorowicz Andrzej,
Fijałkowska Anna,
TrelaStachurska Katarzyna
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
biomedical chromatography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1099-0801
pISSN - 0269-3879
DOI - 10.1002/bmc.183
Subject(s) - propofol , chemistry , chromatography , urine , high performance liquid chromatography , sample preparation , membrane , pharmacology , biochemistry , medicine
One of the least explored subjects in the research on the metabolism of a widely used anaesthetic, propofol, is its excretion in an unchanged form. According to literature, the estimated percentage of applied propofol eliminated intact via kidneys is lower than 0.3%. The present study shows the amount of propofol excreted in an unchanged form with urine collected during the first 48 h after anaesthesia in five patients undergoing elective intracranial procedures. The drug was concentrated and selectively isolated from urine samples by supported liquid membrane technique and determined by HPLC with fluorescence detection. The amount of unchanged propofol eliminated with urine was approximately (0.004 ± 0.002)% of the total applied dose. The obtained results may suggest that propofol in an unchanged form is not excreted by kidneys at all provided that all propofol determined in presented study originated from conjugates hydrolysis. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.