LOS ANGELES — Patients with intracranial aneurysm who respond poorly to the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel when treated with flow diversion using the Pipeline embolization device (Medtronic) have ...

Among patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing a procedure such as angioplasty, those who received platelet function tests before receiving antithrombotic therapy to determine appropriate ...

An analysis of six tests that are used to measure platelet function and help gauge the effectiveness of antiplatelet drugs for patients undergoing a cardiac procedure such as a coronary stent ...

The RECLOSE 2–ACS (Responsiveness to Clopidogrel and Stent Thrombosis 2–ACS) trial from Italy provides new information about platelet reactivity but doesn't answer any of the key questions about the ...

When skin is cut or damaged, tiny cell fragments circulating in the blood, called platelets, arrive at the injury and spread out to stop the blood from leaking out. Once enough layers of platelets ...

June 6, 2012 (Munich, Germany) — A new substudy of the ISAR-REACT-4 trial has found that those patients with high on-clopidogrel-treatment platelet reactivity (HPR) randomized to bivalirudin (Angiomax ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clopidogrel is often the antiplatelet agent of choice for patients with ACS or those receiving a stent because, ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Additional evidence, this time from a phase IIb trial in healthy people ages 50 to 80, supports that bentracimab (PhaseBio) provides a near-immediate reversal of ticagrelor’s ...

When skin is cut or damaged, tiny cell fragments circulating in the blood, called platelets, arrive at the injury and spread out to stop the blood from leaking out. Once enough layers of platelets ...

Platelets are a type of blood cell. They play an important role in healing injuries that result in bleeding. Platelets help your body to form blood clots and stop bleeding. Some people’s platelets don ...