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Angioplasty (PTCA) Defined

Also called "percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty". This procedure involves inserting a catheter into a blocked coronary artery. A narrow balloon is then inflated inside the artery. The balloon widens the artery.

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Major Bleeding Has Significant Impact And Contributes To 30-Day Mortality Following Angioplasty In Severe Heart Attack ...

Published September 5, 2008, 4:16 am, Medical News Today

The Medicines Company (NASDAQ: MDCO) announced the presentation of a new analysis of data from the HORIZONS-AMI trial demonstrating that major bleeding contributes to more deaths at 30 days than repeat heart attack, or re-infarction, in severe heart attack patients treated with angioplasty.

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Victory at Provincial Election

Published September 3, 2008, 6:45 pm, Daily News

Some narrow minded political observers predicted the defeat of the Government party in the recent provincial election. But, they would have realised their wrong views of the Government by now.

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New Analysis From HORIZONS-AMI Shows Major Bleeding Has a Significant Impact and Contributes to 30-Day Mortality ...

Published September 3, 2008, 9:24 am, Centre Daily Times

The Medicines Company (NASDAQ:MDCO) today announced the presentation of a new analysis of data from the HORIZONS-AMI trial demonstrating that major bleeding contributes to more deaths at 30 days than repeat heart attack, or re-infarction, in severe heart attack patients treated with angioplasty. This analysis of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients was presented at the European ...

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New Analysis From HORIZONS-AMI Shows Major Bleeding Has a Significant Impact and Contributes to 30-Day Mortality ...

Published September 3, 2008, 9:00 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

PARSIPPANY, N.J.----The Medicines Company today announced the presentation of a new analysis of data from the HORIZONS-AMI trial demonstrating that major bleeding contributes to more deaths at 30 days than repeat heart attack, or re-infarction, in severe heart attack patients treated with angioplasty.

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Medicure Inc.: New Data Shows AGGRASTAT Offers Significant Benefits to Patients with Poor Response to Aspirin and/or ...

Published September 3, 2008, 8:16 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

Medicure Inc., a cardiovascular focused, biopharmaceutical company, today announced that new data presented at the annual European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich, Germany showed AGGRASTAT® significantly lowers the incidence of heart attack after elective coronary angioplasty in coronary artery disease patients who have shown poor response to standard oral antiplatelet agents, aspirin ...

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New Data Shows Anticlotting Medicine, AGGRASTAT(R), Lowers Incidence of Heart Attack, in Patients Who Respond Poorly ...

Published September 2, 2008, 2:00 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

PHILADELPHIA----Antiplatelet medicine, AGGRASTAT® , a glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor, has been shown to significantly lower the incidence of heart attack after elective coronary angioplasty, in patients with coronary artery disease who have shown poor response to standard oral antiplatelet agents such as aspirin and clopidogrel.1 These results were announced today at the Annual European ...

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Acute Heart Attack Patients Given AGGRASTAT(R) In-Ambulance, With Standard Of Care, Significantly Improves Clinical ...

Published September 1, 2008, 5:09 am, Medical News Today

Early, in-ambulance treatment with antiplatelet medicine AGGRASTAT® (tirofiban HCL), in addition to the standard combined treatment of aspirin, heparin and clopidogrel, significantly improves the results of primary coronary angioplasty (PCI) in patients with ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI).

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