Optimizing Drug Delivery: A Comprehensive Overview

Integrating the clinical and engineering aspects of drug delivery, this book offers a much needed comprehensive overview and patient-oriented approach for enhanced drug delivery optimization and advancement. Starting with an introduction to the subject and pharmacokinetics, it explores advances for such topics as oral, gastroretentive, intravitreal, and intrathecal drug delivery, as well as insulin delivery, gene delivery, and biomaterials-based delivery systems. It also describes drug delivery in cancer, cardiac, infectious diseases, airway diseases, and obstetrics and gynecology applications.

Special Clinical States and Innovative Drug Delivery

Examining special clinical states requiring innovative drug delivery modifications, such as hypercoagulability often seen in pregnancy, cancer, and autoimmune diseases, the book also discusses methods for improved drug delivery in clinical settings using clinical end points, clinical trials, simulations, and other venues.

Latest Advances in Drug Delivery

The book is rounded out by a chapter on the latest drug delivery advances involving nanomaterials, NEMS and MEMS devices, hydrogels, microencapsulation, lipids, stem cells, patches, and ultrasound. It also describes the FDA regulatory and bioethical challenges involved in advancing drug delivery.

Product Details:

Pages: 624

Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (July 10, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1466565942

ISBN-13: 978-1466565944

Dimensions: 1.5 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches