Bextra, another Cox-2 inhibitor made by Pfizer, increased the risk of side effects, including heart attack in trials of patients undergoing heart surgery.
Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Bextra, which increased the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients undergoing open heart surgery, and Arcoxia, Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) still experimental follow-up to Vioxx, are the focus of a great deal of concern.
He was taken to hospital in Bristol where he was treated before undergoing heart bypass surgery.
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The patient was treated there twice, either side of undergoing open heart surgery at The Heart Hospital, London.
This was his first scheduled trip abroad since one to Central Asia in October was cut short by illness Mr Yeltsin has a history of poor health, undergoing major heart surgery just over two years ago.
Although full data is not available, two studies using the pill and an injectible version of the same drug as painkillers for patients undergoing open-heart surgery have now shown it raises the risk of new heart attacks.
These studies included a total of 984 participants who were undergoing different forms of heart surgery.
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Some Mexican firms are hoping to join the booming life-sciences industry in the U.S. Medical device maker Innovamedica has a product in development called a ventricular assistive device--used to keep patients alive during heart surgery--that is undergoing animal trials at the Texas Heart Institute.
Pfizer says the problems only appeared in patients with a very high risk of heart disease who were undergoing surgery.
After undergoing another surgery to replace Medtronic leads--wires connecting the pacemaker to the heart--with ones from Guidant, Davis sued both the hospital system and Haugland, charging medical malpractice and complaining that the second surgery could have been prevented.
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