Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between tacrolimus blood concentration and clinical efficacy in treatment of nephrotic syndrome patients. METHODS The blood valley concentration of tacrolimus in 34 cases of nephrotic syndrome patients was detected by enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique after tacrolimus plasma-drug concentration reached to steady state, then the therapeutic efficacy and adverse reactions were observed. The relationship between tacrolimus blood concentration and clinical efficacy was evaluated by SPSS 13.0. RESULTS The tacrolimus blood concentration was (8.11±3.23)ng·mL
-1 in group of CR, (6.08±1.15)ng·mL
-1 in group of PR, and (3.25±0.96)ng·mL
-1 in group of NR respectively. Remission rate was 82.4%. The relationship between clinical efficacy and tacrolimus blood concentration was analyzed by Spearmen correlation coefficients showed that it was positively correlated, and the correlation was closelyr
s=0.611>0.5>0, P<0.01, t(α/2)=0.01. CONCLUSION The clinical efficacy of tacrolimus in the treatment of nephrotic syndrome is correlate to the blood concentrateion intimately, and in the range of 4.88-11.34 ng·mL
-1 of tacrolimus blood concentrateion, it can achieve satisfactory therapeutic efficacy to nephrotic syndrome patients.