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What are typical medications to be on before and after an aneurysm repair?
Here Mr Alexander Rolls, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, discusses some of the common medications used to mitigate the risk of stroke, heart attack, and growth of an aneurysm.
However, these medications do not treat or cure aneurysms and should be discussed with your doctor when undergoing any medical therapies.
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What are the typical medications that you may have to be on before and after an aneurysm repair? Well I think there's you know there's strong evidence now and this is this is you know widely used in the UK is that people who who have vascular disease or also known as vascular paths whether that's aneurysmal or occlusive disease need to be on moderate to high strength statins medications and they need to be on an anti-platelet agent such as aspirin or clopidogrel and if you look at the evidence a bit more closely, most people would argue for the use of clopidogrel over aspirin. So those two medications are very powerful in terms of their ability to reduce the risks of heart attack and stroke which are quite prevalent in the population that we treat. But there are no specific medications that need to be given to or can be given in fact to stabilize aneurysm growth or none that we know of at the moment. The medications I just discussed before largely mitigate against risks of vascular disease in general.
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