For that reason, the FDA recommends that patients who receive drug-eluting stents be placed on dual anti-platelet therapy -- typically Plavix (clopidogrel) ...
Montreal, QC - Insurance drug plans that restrict or delay access to clopidogrel poststenting may significantly increase the risk of mortality, ...
Physicians in the United States and Europe acknowledge that cost is a significant obstacle to prescribing clopidogrel. Additionally, with clinical trial ...
Patients who receive the anti-platelet medication clopidogrel following an acute coronary syndrome (such as heart attack) appear to be at greater risk of a ...
The ongoing COGENT program will evaluate the efficacy and safety of Cogentus's lead product, CGT-2168, which combines the antiplatelet medicine clopidogrel ...
The increased risk occurred whether or not patients had received stents and was similar for all durations of clopidogrel therapy studied: from less than six ...
... at particularly high risk of developing another heart attack or dying in the 30 days after they stop taking the anti-clotting medication clopidogrel. ...
Denver, CO - A clustering of adverse events in the initial 90 days after stopping clopidogrel among both medically treated and PCI-treated patients with ACS ...
5 -- Acute coronary syndrome patients who stop clopidogrel (Plavix) therapy are at risk for acute myocardial infarction or death, particularly for the first ...
Clopidogrel (Plavix) and aspirin are medications routinely prescribed for 1-3 months following cerebrovascular stent placement to combat the risk of blood ...