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The widow of a man who took Bextra and suffered a heart attack filed suit in St. Clair, Illinois alledging that a faulty design of the drugs was to blame for her husband's death.
 
Arlene Keller-Wilson said her husband began use of Bextra in late 2002, less than one year after the drug's release onto the market. Without signs or warning, Robert Wilson suffered a massive heart attack and subsequently died.

Pfizer sued for Bextra in St. Clair County

St. Clair Record - 3/13/2006 3:43 PM

The estate of a man who died of a heart attack filed a wrongful death suit against Pfizer claiming the prescription medication that was recalled caused the heart attack that killed him.
 
Arlene Keller-Wilson claims her husband, Ronald, at age 60, was prescribed Bextra for pain relief on Oct. 11, 2002. Two months later he had a heart attack.
 
Bextra is a Cox-2 inhibitor and was approved by the FDA on Nov. 16, 2001, for the relief of symptoms of osteoarthritis and adult rheum
 
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