Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Acting against or destroying blood platelets.
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- adjective Going against or
destroying blood platelets.
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Examples
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Further, the PROTEX Stent System may eliminate the need for long-term antiplatelet therapy, thereby decreasing costs and reducing bleeding risks to the patient.
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Dr Thomas Vassiliades (Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA), who voted against recommending approval, said that while the statistical analysis showed the device to be equivalent to warfarin therapy, "there were too many confounding variables, such as antiplatelet therapy, to approve."
theHeart.org 2009
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But even with aggressive antiplatelet therapy, more than 10% of treated patients suffer heart attacks, prompting a quest to develop anticoagulants to fight another major contributor to clots: the enzyme thrombin.
J&J Drug May Have New Role Ron Winslow 2011
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When patients are in the hospital, "we treat them with both anticoagulants and antiplatelet drugs," said Jessica Mega , a cardiologist at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and the first author of the Atlas study.
J&J Drug May Have New Role Ron Winslow 2011
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The company said late yesterday that the US Food and Drug Administration approved antiplatelet medication Brilinta to reduce the rate of heart arrack and cardiovascular death in adults with acute coronary syndrome.
Pharma News: Eli Lilly Earnings, AstraZeneca Receives Drug Approval 2011
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It said Plavix "has met the long-felt need for an effective and safe antiplatelet drug," as evidenced by clinical trials proving its safety and effectiveness versus aspirin.
Sanofi, Bristol Reap Two Victories on Plavix Peter Loftus 2010
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The pharma group's sales in the region in 2009 were driven by products such as the Yaz oral contraceptive pill, Nexovar oral anti-cancer medication and the antiplatelet AspirinCardio.
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The pharma group's sales in the region in 2009 were driven by products such as the Yaz oral contraceptive pill, Nexovar oral anti-cancer medication and the antiplatelet AspirinCardio.
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It said Plavix "has met the long-felt need for an effective and safe antiplatelet drug," as evidenced by clinical trials proving its safety and effectiveness versus aspirin.
Sanofi, Bristol Reap Two Victories on Plavix Peter Loftus 2010
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It said Plavix "has met the long-felt need for an effective and safe antiplatelet drug," as evidenced by clinical trials proving its safety and effectiveness versus aspirin.
Sanofi, Bristol Reap Two Victories on Plavix Peter Loftus 2010
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