Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin or ibuprofen are commonly used for the occasional headache or fever or to reduce soreness and inflammation resulting from work or exercise. However, many individuals who have rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis depend on these drugs to reduce pain and to restore sufficient flexibility in inflamed joints to permit normal day-to-da...

Atherosclerosis is a process with inflammatory features and selective cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) inhibitors may potentially have antiatherogenic effects by virtue of inhibiting inflammation. However, by decreasing vasodilatory and antiaggregatory prostacyclin production, COX-2 antagonists may lead to increased prothrombotic activity. To define the cardiovascular effects of COX-2 inhibitors when u...

The discovery of inducible cyclooxygenase-2 enzyme led to the development of a new generation of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, most commonly known as coxibs. Within a short span of time, coxibs became the most widely prescribed drugs (with annual sale of more than $5 billion in the US) due to their gastroprotective effect. But immediate and voluntarily withdrawal of rofecoxib due to exce...

Case Report 1 Male, 40 years-old, non-atopic, who was hospitalized due to anaphylactic shock (nausea, vomiting, dyspnea, hypoxia and hypotension) 30 minutes after etoricoxib intake for low-back pain. He was hospitalized 6 months earlier due to acute respiratory insufficiency with mechanical ventilation of unknown etiology that he later related to etoricoxib intake 60 minutes before. He tolerate...

Selective inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2, 'coxibs') are highly effective anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs that exert their action by preventing the formation of prostanoids. Recently some coxibs, which were designed to exploit the advantageous effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs while evading their side effects, have been reported to increase the risk of myo cardial inf...

In this study, effects of rofecoxib, celecoxib, nimesulide on the acute phase of inflammation were studied in the carrageenan-induced paw edema model and their influence on the chronic phase of inflammation was evaluated in the cotton pellet granuloma tests. Additionally, effects of these drugs on capillary vascular permeability were examined in the hyaluronidase test and were compared with tha...