Dronedarona - desenvolvimento e validação de metodologia para análise de comprimidos revestidos

Abstract

Dronedarone is a new antiarrhythmic agent and amiodarone analogue developed to reduce the toxic effects related to amiodarone. Dronedarone was approved for the maintenance of the sinus rhythmic in adult patients with atrial fibrillation and to reduce the risk of hospitalization in these patients. It is commercially available as film-coated tablets. There are no official monographs in any pharmacopoeia or analytical methods described in the literature for the analysis of dronedarone in pharmaceutical dosage form or bulk form. In the present study, an analytical methodology was developed for the analysis of dronedarone in pharmaceutical dosage form and bulk form. The reversed-phase liquid chromatography method was performed using a Waters XBridge C18 column (250 mm × 4.6 mm). The mobile phase consisted of buffer solution pH 4.9 / acetonitrile (35:65, v/v), running at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min, using photodiode array detector set at 289 nm. The chromatographic separation was obtained within 7.0 min and it was linear in the concentration range from 5.0 to 100.0 μg/mL (r = 0.9999). The spectrophotometric method was developed and validated and dronedarone was quantified at 289 nm, using methanol as diluent. The micellar electrokinetic method was also developed and validated, using nimesulide as internal standard. The analyses were performed on a fused-silica capillary (50 μm i.d.; effective length, 40 cm), using electrolyte solution consisted of 40 mm borate buffer and 50 mM SDS at pH 9.2, with detection by photodiode array detector set at 216 nm. The injection was performed using the hydrodynamic mode at 50 mbar for 7 s and a constant voltage of 28 kV was applied during analysis. The electrophoretic separation was obtained within 7.0 min and it was linear in the concentration range from 25 to 150 μg/mL (r = 0.9995). The procedures were validated evaluating parameters such as the specificity, linearity, precision, accuracy, limits of detection and quantitation and robustness, giving results within the acceptable range. The proposed methods were applied for the analysis of the pharmaceutical product, showing significant correlation between the results (p > 0.05). The spectrophotometric method was developed and validated using acetate buffer pH 4.5 as diluent and UV detection at 289 nm, which was applied to evaluate the dissolution test. The dissolution test was developed using 900 mL of acetate buffer pH 4.5 at 37°C, as dissolution medium, and paddle as apparatus at a stirring rate of 75 rpm.