Interindividual Response Variability, Laboratory Variability or Aspirin 'Resistance'? Individual drug response is a multifactorial, highly variable trait, being the final phenotypic result of ...

Dual antiplatelet treatment has been shown to lower the risk of recurrent stroke as compared with aspirin alone when treatment is initiated early (≤24 hours) after an acute mild stroke. The effect of ...

Patients who received a single antiplatelet drug therapy— usually aspirin — after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) had about half the risk of dying in the subsequent 6 months compared ...

Dual antiplatelet therapy after heart bypass surgery is not more effective than aspirin alone - and it increases the risk of excessive bleeding. This has now been shown in a study of 2,201 patients at ...

Compared with ticagrelor or aspirin alone, 12 months of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after coronary artery bypass graft surgery is associated with a reduced risk of MACE that persists out to 5 ...

Two common medications that are categorized as blood thinners and used to prevent blood clots are anticoagulants and antiplatelets. Both are essential in treating conditions caused by blood clots such ...

People at high risk for recurrent cardiac events following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a procedure to open blocked arteries, experienced significantly better outcomes with clopidogrel ...