Tenoxicam

Tenoxicamisaneffectivenonsteroidalanti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that is being used in the clinical practice over 35 years. The efficacy and safety of tenoxicam was established in the numerous randomized and observational clinical trials in patients with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondilitis, gout, backpain.Insurgicalpractice tenoxicam can be used for relief of postsurgical pain and for multimodal perioperational analgesia. The advantages of tenoxicam include the convenience of use (once daily), the availability of different pharmaceutical forms and favorable tolerability profile compared with the other conventional NSAIDs.

Key words

NSAIDs, tenoxicam, efficacy, safety.