LOS ANGELES — Patients with intracranial aneurysm who respond poorly to the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel when treated with flow diversion using the Pipeline embolization device (Medtronic) have ...

Among patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing a procedure such as angioplasty, those who received platelet function tests before receiving antithrombotic therapy to determine appropriate ...

The RECLOSE 2–ACS (Responsiveness to Clopidogrel and Stent Thrombosis 2–ACS) trial from Italy provides new information about platelet reactivity but doesn't answer any of the key questions about the ...

An analysis of six tests that are used to measure platelet function and help gauge the effectiveness of antiplatelet drugs for patients undergoing a cardiac procedure such as a coronary stent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a medical journalist covering cardiology news. The use of platelet-function tests to monitor and guide antiplatelet therapy in ...

The document follows two earlier consensus documents, released in 2013 and 2016. Dominick Angiolillo, MD, PhD (University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville), senior author of the paper, ...

June 6, 2012 (Munich, Germany) — A new substudy of the ISAR-REACT-4 trial has found that those patients with high on-clopidogrel-treatment platelet reactivity (HPR) randomized to bivalirudin (Angiomax ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Additional evidence, this time from a phase IIb trial in healthy people ages 50 to 80, supports that bentracimab (PhaseBio) provides a near-immediate reversal of ticagrelor’s ...

The global platelet function test market is poised for robust growth over the next decade, fueled by innovations in diagnostic technologies and increasing demand for personalized, preventive ...