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A box of Plavix. Plavix is marketed worldwide in nearly 110 countries, with sales of US$6.6 billion in 2009. [45] It was the second-top-selling drug in the world in 2007 [46] and was still growing by over 20% in 2007. US sales were US$3.8 billion in 2008. [47] Before the expiry of its patent, clopidogrel was the second best-selling drug in the ...
Clopidogrel, unlike prasugrel, was issued a black box warning from the FDA on 12 March 2010, as the estimated 2–14% of the US population who have low levels of the CYP2C19 liver enzyme needed to activate clopidogrel may not get the full effect. Tests are available to predict if a patient would be susceptible to this problem or not.
In the United States, a boxed warning (sometimes "black box warning", colloquially) is a type of warning that appears near the beginning of the package insert for certain prescription drugs, so called because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration specifies that it is formatted with a 'box' or border around the text [1] to emphasize its ...
The so-called “black box” from the Black Hawk helicopter, which collided with a passenger jet in Washington, D.C., has now been recovered, according to the National Transport Safety Board ...
The resistance of clopidogrel has emerged through the years and become a great concern for the therapy of patients with ACS or undergoing PCI. Clopidogrel resistance is reported to vary from 4-44% between different populations and ethnic groups. Patients who are exposed to clopidogrel resistance display lower activity of platelet inhibition due ...
The black box and EGPWS will be sent to Washington, DC, for evaluation and could contain critical flight data. The NTSB is leading the crash investigation with assistance from the Federal Aviation ...
The National Transportation Safety Board released photos of the charred black box from the air ambulance crash that occurred Jan. 31 in Philadelphia.
Ticagrelor (Brilinta) is often listed with thienopyridine inhibitors and has similar indications for use but is not a thienopyridine. It is a cyclo-pentyltriazolo-pyrimidine that is distinct from the mechanism of the thienopyridines in that it reversibly (rather than irreversibly) inhibits the P2Y 12 receptor.