Chewing Clopidogrel in Addition to Regular Oral Clopidogrel Treatment to Improve Platelets Aggregation in Patient With NON ST ELEVATION MI

Summary

Since the absorption of clopidogrel through the gastrointestinal tract is limited, we want to examine whether adding clopidogrel by chewing will overcome the limited gastrointestinal absorption, and hence will improve the prevention of platelet aggregation.

Timeline

Start

2009-04

Primary completion

2010-12

Completion

2011-06

Publications

• Background Gurbel PA, Bliden KP, Hiatt BL, O'Connor CM. Clopidogrel for coronary stenting: response variability, drug resistance, and the effect of pretreatment platelet reactivity. Circulation. 2003 Jun 17;107(23):2908-13. doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000072771.11429.83. Epub 2003 Jun 9.
• Background Matetzky S, Shenkman B, Guetta V, Shechter M, Beinart R, Goldenberg I, Novikov I, Pres H, Savion N, Varon D, Hod H. Clopidogrel resistance is associated with increased risk of recurrent atherothrombotic events in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Circulation. 2004 Jun 29;109(25):3171-5. doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000130846.46168.03. Epub 2004 Jun 7.

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