Antiplatelet drug therapy has become one of the cornerstones of treatment for patients with cardiovascular disease. Large clinical trials have shown that antiplatelet medications have important ...

Oral antiplatelet agents such as aspirin and clopidogrel are used to prevent strokes, heart attacks, and other atherothrombotic events. Certain invasive procedures carry a degree of bleeding risk that ...

The use of antiplatelet and/or anticoagulant medications has increased due to irregular diets, limited physical activity, and ...

According to a new study, current evidence suggests that stopping antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy before simple dental ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Compared with dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), taking a single antiplatelet following TAVI is associated with a lower rate of all-cause mortality and major bleeding at 6 months, ...

Platelet adhesion, activation, and aggregation after plaque rupture or erosion are the major determinants of arterial thrombosis leading to acute coronary syndrome (ACS) Antiplatelet therapy, which ...

"The results of our trial potentially broaden the time window for the initiation of treatment, although there was more bleeding with the dual regimen than with the monotherapy," the authors wrote. In ...

There was no benefit to modulating the intensity of antiplatelet therapy compared with standard antiplatelet therapy in high-risk patients who had undergone complex stenting procedures, according to ...

Bleeding is a risk with all antiplatelet drugs, whose effects pose a problem when patients need surgery or suffer a traumatic injury. A fast-acting reversal agent would make the drug safer to use.

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