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Antiplatelet drugs effect may be affected by patient's medications, current medical conditions, food and supplements taken. Antiplatelet drugs effect may be increased or decreased. An increase in antiplatelet effect would increase the risk of bleeding and could cause prolonged or excessive bleeding.
Common side effects include headache, nausea, easy bruising, itching, and heartburn. [10] More severe side effects include bleeding and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. [10] While there is no evidence of harm from use during pregnancy, such use has not been well studied. [3] Clopidogrel is in the thienopyridine-class of antiplatelets. [10]
Ticlopidine interacts with several classes of medications. It increases the antiplatelet effects of aspirin and other NSAIDs. [1] Taking ticlopidine at the same time as antacids decreases the absorption of ticlopidine. [1] Ticlopidine inhibits liver CYP2C19 [11] and CYP2B6 [12] and thus can affect blood levels of medications metabolized by ...
Due to reported severe adverse effects of ticlopidine second and third-thienopyridines, clopidogrel and prasugrel, were developed. [ 5 ] When ticlopidine and clopidogrel were first brought to the market, ticlodipine in 1978 and clopidogrel in 1998, the mechanism of action of these two major antithrombotic drugs was not fully understood.
The drug is produced by AstraZeneca. 90 mg tablet of Brilinta. The most common side effects include dyspnea (difficulty breathing), bleeding and raised uric acid level in the blood. [6] It was approved for medical use in the European Union in December 2010, [6] [8] [9] and in the United States in July 2011.
Many of the side effects of abciximab are due to its anti-platelet effects which increase the risk of bleeding. The most common type of bleeding due to abciximab is gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Thrombocytopenia is a rare but known serious risk characterized by a severe drop in platelets circulating in the blood.
Common side effects include headache, diarrhea, dizziness, and cough. [2] Serious side effects may include decreased survival in those with heart failure, low platelets, and low white blood cells. [2] Cilostazol is a phosphodiesterase 3 inhibitor which works by inhibiting platelet aggregation and dilating arteries. [2]
People receiving eptifibatide are typically seriously ill and most of them are concomitantly treated with other drugs known to have the potential to cause significant side effects. Therefore, not all side effects listed as follows may be attributable to eptifibatide treatment alone: The major adverse event in the PURSUIT study was severe ...