Measurement of warfarin in the oral fluid of patients undergoing anticoagulant oral therapy

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Background: Patients on warfarin therapy undergo invasive and expensive checks for the coagulability of their blood. No information on coagulation levels is currently available between two controls. Methodology: A method was developed to determine warfarin in oral fluid by HPLC and fluorimetric detection. The chromatographic separation was performed at room temperature on a C-18 reversed-phase column, 65% PBS and 35% methanol mobile phase, flow rate 0.7 mL/min, injection volume 25 μL, excitation wavelength 310 nm, emission wavelength 400 nm. Findings: The method was free from interference and matrix effect, linear in the range 0.2-100 ng/mL, with a detection limit of 0.2 ng/mL. Its coefficient of variation was <3% for intra-day measurements and <5% for inter-day measurements. The average concentration of warfarin in the oral fluid of 50 patients was 2.5±1.6 ng/mL (range 0.8-7.6 ng/mL). Dosage was not correlated to INR (r = -0.03, p = 0.85) but positively correlated to warfarin concentration in the oral fluid (r = 0.39, p = 0.006). The correlation between warfarin concentration and pH in the oral fluid (r = 0.37, p = 0.009) confirmed the importance of pH in regulating the drug transfer from blood. A correlation between warfarin concentration in the oral fluid and INR was only found in samples with pH values ≥7.2 (r = 0.84, p = 0.004). Conclusions: Warfarin diffuses from blood to oral fluid. The method allows to measure its concentration in this matrix and to analyze correlations with INR and other parameters. © 2011 Ghimenti et al.

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Ghimenti, S., Lomonaco, T., Onor, M., Murgia, L., Paolicchi, A., Fuoco, R., … Di Francesco, F. (2011). Measurement of warfarin in the oral fluid of patients undergoing anticoagulant oral therapy. PLoS ONE, 6(12). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028182

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