BMJ 1994;309:552-553 (3 September)

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Tiaprofenic acid and cystitis

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are widely used and most of their adverse reactions are well known. The sites mainly affected by toxicity are the gut, the skin, and the kidney. Unusual toxic reactions, such as hepatotoxicity in the case of benoxaprofen or haematological toxicity in the case of phenylbutazone, have led to the drugs being withdrawn or their use severely restricted.1,2

Clinical use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs should be based on their known adverse reactions, particularly their toxic effect on the gut. On this basis it is possible to construct a league table of risk: low dose ibuprofen is the safest drug, naproxen and diclofenac have intermediate risk, and piroxicam and azapropazone are the most toxic.3 Other adverse effects, such as the high rate of skin reactions with fenbufen, may also need to come into the equation.4

In 1991 Ahmed and Davison reported a case of cystitis in association with the . . . [Full text of this article]


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