Ticlopidine is an effective inhibitor of platelet aggregation. It is a prodrug that is metabolised to an active form, which blocks the ADP receptor that is involved in GPIIb/IIIa receptor activation leading to platelet aggregation. Ticlopidine is marketed under the brand name Ticlid and is indicated for patients who cannot take aspirin or in whom aspirin has...
Used in patients, who have had a stroke or stroke precursors and who cannot take aspirin or aspirin has not worked, to try to prevent another thrombotic stroke.
Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Merksem, Belgium
Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Care and Pain Medicine, Turku University and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office, Tokyo, Japan
Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office, Tokyo, Japan
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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