[Highperformance liquid chromatographic assay for lomefloxacin in plasma and its pharmacokinetics in healthy volunteers].

A sensitive and simplified high performance liquid chromatographic procedure has been developed for quantification of lomefloxacin in human plasma. The recovery of lomefloxacin was 95 to 102%. The relative standard deviation was 2.1 to 7.8%. The calibration curve was linear in the range from 0.125 micrograms/ml to 5.012 micrograms/ml with r = 0.9998. The detection limit of the method is 25 ng/ml. The plasma drug concentration-time course after medication conformed to a 1-compartment open model with a first order absorption. Mean t1/2 value was 5.5 h.