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Nonsteroid antiphlogistics - the doubleedge sword

Publication at Third Faculty of Medicine |
2010

Abstract

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are a very important group of drugs. First, significantly improving the quality of life and improve the course and the most painful inflammatory condition affecting mainly the motor system, both aspirin improves the prognosis of patients with atherothrombotic disabilities.

Unfortunately, it is also very problematic group, the most common cause of hospital admissions for adverse drug effects. A number of studies suggest that different populations are different types of adverse events threatened differently.

Selection of optimal drug should therefore consider the individual conditions for a particular patient so as to avoid the Scylla of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract and the Charybdis represented atherothrombotic complications.