Man Dies From Allergic Reaction to Celebrex
March 11, 2002
A fifty-two year-old man who was prescribed celecoxib, also known as celebrex, died recently from an allergic reaction to the drug. French researchers from Hospital de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, described the case in last week's issue of The Lancet. The patient, currently unidentified, developed an angioedema, an allergic disease characterized by patches of circumscribed swelling of the skin, days after celebrex treatment began. The patient stopped taking the drug but soon developed fever, diarrhea and circulatory problems. He died a week later from multiple organ failure.
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