Patients taking tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) can experience toxicity or severe side effects.
As a rapid and less technically demanding alternative to quantitative serum analysis, most …

Background: The sensitivity and selectivity of a colloidal metal immunoassay device
(Triage® Plus TCA) which is designed for the rapid detection of tricyclic antidepressant …

Tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) overdose is a common, potentially life-threatening finding in
patients seen in emergency departments. There is a need to rapidly differentiate the TCA …

Human urine was tested for tricyclic antidepressants with fluorescence polarization
immunoassay (FPIA) reagents on Abbott's ADx system and with EIA reagents on Syva's ETS …

Tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) drugs are also used as adjunctive therapy to treat chronic
pain. To monitor patient compliance to therapy, urine specimens may be preferred since …

The EMITtox serum tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) assay is intended for use with serum or
plasma. Currently, there are no commercially available immunoassay kits available for the …

Abstract Both the Biosite Triage (Biosite Diagnostics, San Diego, CA) method and the Du
Pont aca (Du Pont Company, Wilmington, DE) method give qualitative tricyclic …

Chromatography (gas and liquid) and immunoassays are used for monitoring the commonly
prescribed tricyclic antidepressants. Many commercially available immunoassays are known …

The performance of an enzyme immunoassay kit (EMIT) to diagnose intoxications with
tricyclic antidepressants was compared with a high performance liquid chromatography …

The ADx total serum tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) fluorescence polarization immunoassay
(Abbott Diagnostics) for the semi-quantitation of imipramine or amitriptyline and their …