Patient Home
Welcome to Health Vidya. Discover trusted care and your own health — all in one place.
These highlights do not include all the information needed to use PRASUGREL TABLETS safely and effectively. See full prescribing information for PRASUGREL TABLETS. PRASUGREL tablets, for oral use Initial U.S. Approval: 2009
Medication labelWhy this: Advisory · dailymed-prescription
Prasugrel tablets are indicated to reduce the rate of thrombotic CV events (including stent thrombosis) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) who are to be managed with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as follows: Patients with unstable angina (UA) or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). Patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) when managed with primary or delayed PCI. Prasugrel tablets have been shown to reduce the rate of a combined endpoint of cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), or nonfatal stroke compared to clopidogrel. The difference between treatments was driven predominantly by MI, with no difference on strokes and little difference on CV death [see Clinical Studies (14) ].
- generic_name
- prasugrel
- product_names
- Prasugrel
- ndc
- 65862-829, 65862-830, 65862-829-30, 65862-829-10, 65862-829-03, 65862-830-30, 65862-830-10, 65862-830-03
- group
- drugs
- license
- us-gov-pd
- attribution
- Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine
- reviewed
- 2026-09-18
- language
- en