Had a Heart Attack or Heart-related Chest Pain

When you have had a heart attack or heart-related chest pain, you are at greater risk for having a future heart attack or stroke. Doctors may refer to these conditions as ACS (Acute Coronary Syndrome). With that in mind, you’ll want to do everything you can to help keep a stroke or heart attack from being a part of your future.

PLAVIX helps reduce your future risk of a heart attack or stroke

PLAVIX is a prescription antiplatelet medicine that helps protect patients like you against another heart attack or stroke. Reducing your risk with PLAVIX taken with aspirin may be especially important because having a heart attack, or even heart-related chest pain, increases the ongoing risk of future events, including a future heart attack or even stroke.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Certain genetic factors and some medicines such as Prilosec reduce the effect of PLAVIX leaving you at greater risk for heart attack and stroke. Your doctor may use genetic tests to determine treatment. Don’t stop taking PLAVIX without talking to your doctor as your risk of heart attack or stroke may increase. People with stomach ulcers or conditions that cause bleeding should not use PLAVIX. Taking PLAVIX alone or with some other medicines, including aspirin, may increase bleeding risk which can potentially be life-threatening. So tell your doctor when planning surgery. Tell your doctor all 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.

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Remember, your doctor is the single best source of information regarding your health. Please consult your doctor if you have any questions about your health or your medicine.

What to do next:
Learn more about heart attack or heart-related chest pain (ACS)

Talking with your doctor

The important questions you need to ask your doctor about PLAVIX. Click here

PLAVIX taken with aspirin

PLAVIX, taken with aspirin, plays its own role in helping to keep platelets from sticking together and forming clots. Find out about how PLAVIX can help protect

Recovery Guide

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