In patients with a heart attack, stroke, or established P.A.D., PLAVIX may help reduce the risk of future heart attack or stroke
Many people take cholesterol and blood pressure medicines to help reduce their risk of a heart attack or stroke. PLAVIX works differently by helping to reduce your risk of a future heart attack or stroke by keeping blood platelets from sticking together and forming clots.
Always talk to your doctor before taking aspirin or other medicines with PLAVIX,
especially if you’ve had a stroke.
PLAVIX taken with aspirin can help patients like you
If you've been hospitalized with heart-related chest pain or a heart attack, talk to your doctor about a post–heart attack treatment plan of PLAVIX with aspirin. PLAVIX, taken with aspirin, plays
its own role in helping to keep platelets from sticking together and forming clots. PLAVIX, taken
with aspirin, allows blood to flow more easily and provides more protection against
a future heart attack or stroke than aspirin alone.
See how PLAVIX, taken with aspirin, helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming clots.
Blood clots that form in the arteries are the direct cause of most heart attacks, but PLAVIX may minimize your risk by preventing clots.
The effectiveness of PLAVIX has been proven and the safety profile supported by 3 large clinical studies involving 77,000 patients who had a heart attack or had been hospitalized with heart-related chest pain. Two studies involved about 48,000 patients who had a suspected heart attack caused by a completely blocked artery. These studies determined that PLAVIX taken with aspirin goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone to provide greater protection against a heart attack, stroke, and even death. PLAVIX helps save lives in patients who survive a heart attack due to a completely blocked artery.
For more than 13 years, doctors have written PLAVIX prescriptions to over 115 million people.
PLAVIX is the #1 prescribed antiplatelet medicine.* Talk to your doctor about PLAVIX and continue to take all your medicines
as prescribed.
* IMS Health, NPA Plus™, TRxs. February 2010.
Stent* or no stent, PLAVIX may be right for you
Some patients who have had heart-related chest pain (unstable angina) or a certain
type of heart attack in which their artery was partially blocked (non–ST-elevation
heart attack) have medical procedures to insert a stent into an artery that is narrowed
due to plaque buildup. Others are managed with medical treatment, or with cardiac
surgery. In each of these cases, it’s still important to talk to your doctor
about PLAVIX.
*Bare metal stents. If you have any other type of stent, please talk to your doctor.
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.
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