After a suspected transient ischemic attack, an 81-year-old man who takes 81 mg aspirin daily was placed on clopidogrel (Plavix) 75 mg. Shortly thereafter, he developed easy bruising. Should I ...

Munich, Germany - For patients undergoing PCI, increasing the loading dose of clopidogrel above 600 mg does not seem to give better platelet inhibition, the results of ISAR CHOICE, a new German ...

we assigned patients with minor ischemic stroke or high-risk TIA to receive either clopidogrel at a loading dose of 600 mg on day 1, followed by 75 mg per day, plus aspirin (at a dose of 50 to 325 ...

The 247 noncarriers of a loss-of-function CYP2C19*2 allele received clopidogrel doses of 75 mg and 150 mg daily (two periods each), whereas 86 carriers (80 heterozygotes, six homozygotes ...

Dual antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel plus low-dose aspirin has not been studied in a broad population of patients at high risk for atherothrombotic events. We randomly assigned 15,603 ...