Clopidogrel / Acetylsalicylic acid Viatris (previously Clopidogrel / Acetylsalicylic acid Mylan)

<p>Clopidogrel/Acetylsalicylic acid Mylan is a medicine used to prevent problems caused by blood clots and hardening of the arteries, such as a heart attack, in adults who are already taking both clopidogrel and acetylsalicylic acid as separate tablets. It can be used in the following groups of patients who have a condition known as ‘acute coronary syndrome’:</p><ul><li>patients who have unstable angina (a severe type of chest pain) or who have had a heart attack with no ‘ST-segment elevation’ (an abnormal reading on an electrocardiogram), including those who are having a stent (a short tube) inserted into an artery to prevent it from closing up;</li><li>patients being treated for heart attack with ST-segment elevation, when the doctor thinks that they would benefit from thrombolytic treatment (treatment to dissolve blood clots).</li></ul><p>Clopidogrel/Acetylsalicylic acid Mylan contains two active substances, clopidogrel and acetylsalicylic acid (also known as aspirin) and is a ‘generic medicine’. This means that Clopidogrel/Acetylsalicylic acid Mylan contains the same active substance and works in the same way as a ‘reference medicine’ already authorised in the EU called DuoPlavin.</p>