Vigilance in Prescribing Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs
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To the Editor: We read with great interest the article entitled, “A Case of Acute Myocardial Infarction Induced by Selective Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor” by Seo et al.[1] The authors have shown a correlation of aceclofenac intake with the myocardial infarction. This is really important information to be noted as aceclofenac or any nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) of this group were prescribed more frequently worldwide. There are a number of studies and analysis supporting and warning regarding the cardiac risk factor with diclofenac, as aceclofenac is its analogs.[2,3]
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