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Osteoarthritis Clinical criteria: The treatment must be for symptomatic treatment.
Rheumatoid arthritis Clinical criteria: The treatment must be for symptomatic treatment.
“Meloxicam is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) of the enolic acid class, which has shown anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic properties in animals.”
“Meloxicam is eliminated from the body with a mean elimination half-life of 20 hours.”
“Meloxicam is eliminated almost entirely by hepatic metabolism: two thirds by cytochrome (CYP) P450 enzymes (CYP 2C9 two thirds and CYP 3A4 one third) and one third by other pathways, such as peroxidase oxidation.”
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Curated subset. The full adverse-effect list is in the TGA Product Information; click any citation above to open it.