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How PLAVIX Works

 

PLAVIX helps protect you from a future heart attack or stroke.

In most cases, a heart attack or stroke is caused by a blood clot that reduces or blocks the flow of blood through an artery. PLAVIX helps keep platelets in the blood from sticking together and forming blood clots. By keeping your blood flowing, PLAVIX helps protect you from blood clots and a future heart attack or stroke.

PLAVIX is recommended for people who have suffered from a recent heart attack or recent stroke, or who have been diagnosed with Peripheral Artery Disease, or P.A.D., also known as poor circulation in the legs. Each of these conditions increases the risk for a future heart attack or stroke.

PLAVIX, taken with aspirin, is also recommended for people who have Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS), a diagnosis that includes heart-related chest pain (unstable angina) and the 2 types of heart attack—acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction ("STEMI") and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction ("NSTEMI"). If you have been hospitalized with heart-related chest pain (unstable angina) or had a STEMI heart attack, you, too, are at a higher risk for dangerous blood clots and a future heart attack or stroke.

Always talk to your doctor before taking aspirin or other medicines with PLAVIX, especially if you’ve had a stroke.

PLAVIX has been the focus of extensive research, studies, and scientific findings. The effectiveness of PLAVIX has been proven and the safety profile supported by 4 large clinical studies involving 81,000 patients.

 

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For more than 11 years, doctors have written PLAVIX prescriptions to over 100 million people.

Important Safety Information: People with stomach ulcers or other conditions that cause bleeding should not use PLAVIX. Taking
PLAVIX alone or with some other medicines, including aspirin, may increase bleeding risk, so tell your doctor when planning surgery.
Certain genetic factors and some medicines, such as Prilosec, may affect how PLAVIX works. Tell your doctor all the medicines you
take, including aspirin, especially if you’ve had a stroke. If fever, unexplained weakness or confusion develops, tell your doctor
promptly. These may be signs of TTP, a rare but potentially life-threatening condition, reported sometimes less than 2 weeks after
starting PLAVIX. Other rare but serious side effects may occur.

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