Usefulness of limited sampling strategy for mycophenolic acid area under the curve considering postoperative days in living-donor renal transplant recipients with concomitant prolonged-release tacrolimus

• Main Authors: Tomoyuki Enokiya (Author), Kouhei Nishikawa (Author), Yuichi Muraki (Author), Takuya Iwamoto (Author), Hideki Kanda (Author), Yoshiki Sugimura (Author), Masahiro Okuda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The optimal dose of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in renal transplant patients has been recommended to be decided on the basis of area under the concentration-time curve (AUC0-12) of mycophenolic acid (MPA). Although meta-analysis has revealed that postoperative day (POD) is an inf...