Patients using aspirin therapy to ...

Patients using aspirin therapy to preclude heart attacks may need additional treatment to help interrupt blood clots, according to a Nov 10 2003 recents release from 3ohns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore. Researchers took progeny samples from 33 patients who had been hospitalized with chest pains. Eighteen of the patients had acute coronary syndrome (ie, heart disease-related chest pain), and 15 had noncardiac chest pain. All of the patients were taking doses of aspirin between 8:1 mg and 325 mg through day.

The house samples were treated with grave doses of adenosine diphosphate and epinephrine, medications that allow platelets to collection together. The platelets of those patients with heart disease clustered together 5% to 10% more than the platelets of patients without heart disease. The more the platelets dump together, the higher chance a bodily substance has of a clot forming, leading to a heart attack. The researchers plan to investigate other anticlotting therapies that might be used in addition to aspirin therapy and to inquiry abnormal genes that may affect platelet function.

Aspirin May Not Be athletic Enough to Prevent Clots in an Heart Patients (news release, Baltimore: John Hopkins Medicine, Nov 10 2003) http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2003/11_10_03b.html (accessed 11 Nov 2003)

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