• Filter By:
• Specialty
• Source
• Condition
• Cancer
• Infectious Disease
• Drug
• Training
• Management
• Procedure
• Therapy
• Vaccine
• Nutrition
• Country

Aspirin plus dipyridamole has the highest surface under the cumulative ranking curves (SUCRA) values in terms of mortality, intracranial hemorrhage, and adverse event rate among 7 drug therapies in the treatment of cerebral infarction
Conclusions: Our findings revealed that aspirin plus dipyridamole therapy might be the optimum one for patients with CI, which could help to improve the survival of CI patients.
Source: Medicine - March 1, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Source Type: research

Dual Therapy with Aspirin and Cilostazol May Improve Platelet Aggregation in Noncardioembolic Stroke Patients: A Pilot Study.
Conclusion Although there were no significant differences in platelet aggregation, platelet activation or the endothelial biomarker levels of the A and CA groups, dual therapy with aspirin and cilostazol inhibited platelet aggregation in comparison to the pre-treatment values, similarly to patients who received aspirin alone. This may suggest the clinical usefulness of dual therapy with aspirin and cilostazol in the treatment of patients with noncardioembolic ischemic stroke. PMID: 28566591 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Internal Medicine - June 3, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Intern Med Source Type: research

It Is Not Mandatory to Use Triple Rather Than Dual Anti-Platelet Therapy After a Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With a Second-Generation Drug-Eluting Stent
Abstract: It has been shown that triple antiplatelet therapy with cilostazol results in better clinical outcomes than dual therapy in patients treated with a first-generation drug-eluting stent (DES); however, it is unclear whether triple antiplatelet therapy has a similar efficacy after the implantation of second-generation DES. In the COACT (Cath Olic medical center percutAneous Coronary in Tervention) registry, 1248 study subjects who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention with an everolimus- or zotarolimus-eluting stent (Endeavor, Xience V, or Promus) were analyzed. The patients were divided into 2 groups after p...
Source: Medicine - November 1, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Observational Study Source Type: research

Medical management of critical limb ischaemia: where do we stand today?
This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Journal of Internal Medicine - June 26, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Matthew A. Lambert, Jill J. F. Belch Tags: Review Source Type: research