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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 22, 777-781, Copyright © 1976 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Gas-chromatographic analysis for therapeutic concentrations of amitriptyline and nortriptyline in plasma, with use of a nitrogen detector

DN Bailey and PI Jatlow

We describe a gas-chromatographic procedure for the simultaneous determination of amitriptyline and its active metabolite, nortriptyline, in therapeutic concentrations in human plasma, with use of a nitrogen detector. Both drugs are extracted at pH 10.5 into hexane/isoamyl alcohol, back-extracted into dilute HCl, and re- extracted into hexane/isoamyl alcohol after alkalinization of the HCl. The solvent is evaporated and the residue gas-chromatographed. Protriptyline is used as the internal standard. As little as 5 mug of amitriptyline or nortriptyline can be detected per liter of plasma. The coefficients of variation, for a concentration of 200 mug/liter, are 4.6% and 4.3% within-day and 8.6% and 3.4% day-to-day for amitriptyline and nortriptyline, respectively. The procedure was applied to patients receiving therapeutic doses of both drugs and also to patients who had taken overdoses of amitriptyline.


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