To evaluate cost-effectiveness of adding clopidogrel to aspirin therapy in high-risk patients with ACS, and assess the optimum therapy duration. Schleinitz and Heidenreich analyzed data from the ...

Dr. Sabatine: Clopidogrel is a prodrug and it needs to ... Dr. Hutter: Do think it might eventually be cost effective to do that? Dr. Sabatine: The cost for genotyping in general is going down ...

Overall, prasugrel may be superior to the approved dose of the older drug, clopidogrel (Plavix), in many cases. But more doctors have been using an initial, higher-than-standard dose of ...