Evaluation of NaproxenSodium and CodeinePhosphate Combination in Osteoarthritis

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Osteoarthritis (OA) pain treatment has limitations in terms of serious adverse effects and low efficacy. The investigators aimed to evaluate efficacy and safety of naproxen sodium/codeine phosphate combination in these patients.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Istanbul Medeniyet University
• Collaborator: Abdi Ibrahim Ilac San. ve Tic A.S.
• Treatments: Codeine; Naproxen

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Clinical and radiological diagnosis of primary osteoarthritis (knee and hip) in the recent year according to criteria of American College of Rheumatology (ACR)

• Grade 1, 2 or 3 osteoarthritis patients

• Patients 40 to 65 years of age

• Patients with WOMAC score ≥ 40

• Patients with VAS score ≥ 40

• Patients who signed the consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

• Grade 4 osteoarthritis patients / Pregnant or breastfeeding mothers

• Patients with known allergic reaction or intolerance to NSAIDs (nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs)

• Patients hypersensitive to naproxen sodium or codeine

• Patients who took another analgesic medicine during 24 hours before and/or a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine during 72 hours before taking study medicine

• Patients with active gastric or duodenum ulcer

• Patients with renal dysfunction and/or a kidney disease

• Patients with severe liver disease

• Patients with rare hereditary galactose intolerance, Lapp lactase insufficiency or glucose-galactose malabsorption problem

• Patients with depression treated by a medicine from monoamine oxidase class

• Patients with uncontrolled hypertension or patients with hypertension that is hardly controlled with medicines

• Patients with a known medical, psychological disturbance or social status that may negatively affect inclusion into the study or patients who may lead to increase in risk for others with inclusion into the study

• Patients with proven clinically important and unstable systemic medical disease

• Patients who have medical contraindication for study medicine

• Patients who are judged by investigator that they will not adhere or adequately adhere to the study protocol

• Patients who participated into another study with another study medicine in the last 4 week

• Patients who intent to donate blood or blood product during the study period or in the following month of the study completion