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  2. Antiplatelet drug - Wikipedia

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    Antiplatelet therapy with one or more of these drugs decreases the ability of blood clots to form by interfering with the platelet activation process in primary hemostasis. Antiplatelet drugs can reversibly or irreversibly inhibit the process involved in platelet activation resulting in decreased tendency of platelets to adhere to one another ...

  3. Thrombosis prevention - Wikipedia

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    Moving during periods of travel is a modifiable behavior. Preventing blood clots includes the use of medications that interrupt the complex clotting cascade and changing the proteins that are needed for clotting. Antiplatelet drugs also have an effect in preventing the formation of clots. [citation needed]

  4. Adenosine diphosphate receptor inhibitor - Wikipedia

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    The second generation thienopyridine P2Y 12 receptor blocker clopidogrel is an effective antiplatelet agent useful for treatment of ischemic cerebrovascular, cardiac and peripheral arterial release. [27] Like other thienopyridine drugs, the drug was often combined with aspirin in clinical use. [23]

  5. Category:Antiplatelet drugs - Wikipedia

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    Generally, drugs outlined within the ATC code B01AC should be included in this category. Please see WP:PHARM:CAT for more information. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Antiplatelet drugs .

  6. Ticlopidine - Wikipedia

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    Ticlopidine, sold under the brand name Ticlid, is a medication used to reduce the risk of thrombotic strokes. [1] It is an antiplatelet drug in the thienopyridine family which is an adenosine diphosphate (ADP) receptor inhibitor.

  7. Dipyridamole - Wikipedia

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    Dipyridamole (trademarked as Persantine and others) is an antiplatelet drug of the nucleoside transport inhibitor and PDE3 inhibitor class that inhibits blood clot formation when given chronically and causes blood vessel dilation when given at high doses over a short time.

  8. Antithrombotic - Wikipedia

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    An antithrombotic agent is a drug that reduces the formation of blood clots (). [1] [2] Antithrombotics can be used therapeutically for prevention (primary prevention, secondary prevention) or treatment of a dangerous blood clot (acute thrombus).

  9. Peripheral artery disease - Wikipedia

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    Management of high cholesterol, and antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin and clopidogrel. Statins reduce clot formation and cholesterol levels, respectively, and can help with disease progression and address the other cardiovascular risks that the affected person is likely to have.