Medical Pharmacology Chapter 41:  Anti-inflammatory Agents

Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs; Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs; Nonopioid Analgesics; Drugs Used in Gout

 

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Other Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Agents

Chemistry

Diverse Classes

Drug Classes: Examples

Propionic acid derivative

Ibuprofen

Pyrrolealkanoic acid derivative

Tolmetin

Phenylalkanoic acid derivative

Flubiprofen

Indole derivative

Indomethacin

Pyrazolone derivative

Phenylbutazone

Phenylacetic acid derivative

Diclofenac

Fenamate

Meclofenamate acid

Oxicam

Ppiroxicam

naphthylacetic acid prodrug

Nabumetone

Primary Reference: Katzung, B. G. and Furst, D. E. Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs; Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs; Nonopioid Analgesics; Drugs Used in Gout, in Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, (Katzung, B. G., ed) Appleton-Lange, 1998, pp 578-602.

Lipsky, P.E. Rheumatoid Arthritis, In Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 14th edition, (Isselbacher, K.J., Braunwald, E., Wilson, J.D., Martin, J.B., Fauci, A.S. and Kasper, D.L., eds) McGraw-Hill, Inc (Health Professions Division), 1998, pp 1880-1888.Agudelo, C.A.

Gout in Medicine for the Practicing Physician, Fourth edition, (Hurst, J. Willis, editor in chief) Appleton and Lange, 1996, pp 223-226.

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