Experimental conditions for a simple capillary isotachophoresis (ITP)
with conductometric detection have been created for the determination
of verapamil in drugs and serum. The limit of detection (LD) was 80 ng
. cm(-3) for standard verapamil solution. Under optimal experimental
conditions and instrumental comparison, the LD of verapamil in serum w
as 420 ng . cm(-3) without sample pretreatment. To lower the LD of ver
apamil in serum a liquid-liquid extraction was used. The high recovery
(more than 94%) facilitated the verapamil ITP analysis at the therape
utic concentration.