Anti-cardiac medicines

1999/08/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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The American Heart Association has published in its journal a new treatment against infarction.

This treatment would be used to remove the blood coacles in the heart and does not require surgery. Only two drugs: on the one hand a thrombolytic medicine that dissolves the blood coacles and on the other a platelet blocker. The latter, also known as superaspirin, prevents the accumulation of platelets from the clot.

In this way, patients at risk of having a heart attack should not be intervened. One study tested two drugs with 888 people with heart disease, obtaining very good results.