%0 Journal Article
%T CONTRAST ADVERSE EFFECT STUDY OF ASPIRIN AND CLOPIDOGREL IN STROKE PATIENTS USING COMBINATION AND INDIVIDUAL MEDICATION
%A V.S. Giri Prasad
%A A.P. Ranjith kumar
%A Narender Karra
%A P.Prathyusha
%J International Research Journal of Pharmacy
%D 2012
%I International Research Journal of Pharmacy
%X Ischemia and hemorrhage are the conditions which may lead to stroke. As stroke is a medical emergency, treated with medications such as aspirin, clopidogrel and dipyridamole. In the present study the combination and individual adverse effects of aspirin and clopidogrel medication were studied. The study during was around nine months in one of the private hospital at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Adverse effects evaluation was based on WHO guide lines and Naranjo¡¯s Algorithm. Total 69 stroke patients were taken in to studies. 46 (66.66%) were males and 23 (33.33%) were females. The number of ischemic stroke patients was 39(56.5%) and hemorrhage stroke was 30(43.4%). Among 41 patients, 19 patients was on Aspirin (46.34%), 10 patients was on clopidogral (24.34%) and 12 patients was on combinations medication (29.26%). Adverse effects reported among the antiplatelate users were 6 patients. Among these 6 patients 4 patients were observed with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGI) the overall percentage was 66.66% and 2 patients were observed with Vomiting, the overall percentage was 33.33%. In this study, the relative risk reduction for secondary stroke prevention was 37% with use of a combination of extended- release dipyridamole and aspirin. Importantly, the risk of major bleeding attributable to the combination therapy was no greater than that seen with aspirin alone. The benefit of clopidogrel over aspirin for the prevention of vascular events was a relative risk reduction of 8.7%.In addition, there was less major bleeding in the clopidogrel group, yielding a relative net benefit of about 10%. This study revels clopidogrel is the safe drug when compared with Aspirin and as well as combination therapy.
%K Ischemia
%K hemorrhage
%K WHO guide lines and Naranjo¡¯s Algorithm.
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