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Fourteen elderly subjects (10 women, 4 men) with a mean age of 81 (SD 6.7) years and in need of anti-inflammatory drug treatment were given a single dose of 20 mg tenoxicam. After a drug-free interval of 5 weeks, multiple dose treatment with 20 mg tenoxicam once daily for 56 days was initiated. The single and multiple dose kinetics of tenoxicam were investigated after HPLC determination of tenoxicam in the plasma.
The elimination half-life of tenoxicam ranged from 44 to 132 h (mean 71.9 h) with no significant difference between the single and multiple dosage regimens. Tenoxicam reached maximum plasma concentrations after 1.4 and 1.1 h, with values of 3.6 and 15.5 µg·ml−1, for the single and multiple dosage regimen respectively. The corresponding trough values (24-h values) were 1.8 and 11.7 µg·ml−1. A mean accumulation ratio of 5.1 was calculated. The mean increase in the area under the plasma concentration time curves at steady-state was 21% more than predicted from the initial single dose. This deviation from linearity was considered to be of minor clinical significance. The kinetics of tenoxicam in elderly were similar to that published for young healthy volunteers.
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Nilsen, O.G., Walstad, R.A., Eckert, M. et al. Single and multiple dose pharmacokinetics of tenoxicam in the elderly. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 35, 563–566 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00558254
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