Simultaneous high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of lornoxicam and its 5'-hydroxy metabolite in human plasma using electrochemical detection
- PMID: 8376521
- DOI: 10.1016/0378-4347(93)80427-6
Simultaneous high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of lornoxicam and its 5'-hydroxy metabolite in human plasma using electrochemical detection
Abstract
A selective and sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic method with coulometric detection is described for the simultaneous quantitation of lornoxicam, a new oxicam class drug, and its 5'-hydroxy metabolite in human plasma. The two analytes and the internal standard are extracted from plasma at pH 4.0 by liquid-liquid extraction and separated on a C18 column. Absolute detection limits using 100 microliters of plasma are found to be 5 and 10 ng/ml for lornoxicam and 5'-hydroxylornoxicam, respectively. The assay described has been successfully applied to samples from clinical studies.