Affiliation:
1. Istituto di Patologia Medica, University of Milan, L Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy
2. Medical Department, Farmitalia Carlo Erba, Milan, Italy
Abstract
The effect of ketoprofen (Orudis, Farmitalia) on ADP, epinephrine (EPI) and collagen (COLL) induced platelet aggregation (PIA), simplate bleeding time (SBT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT) and per cent prothrombin activity (PrA) was studied in eleven patients, four males and seven females (median age 59 years) with rheumatoid arthritis (six cases), cancer (four cases) and osteoarthrosis (one case). Tests were performed before and 1, 8 and 24 hours after a single intravenous dose (600 mg) of ketoprofen and on Days 4 and 8 during a 7-day treatment (200 mg i.v. every 8 hours) and 1 day after withdrawal of the drug. PTT and PrA were not affected by the drug. Bleeding time was not significantly modified by the acute treatment, but was prolonged during the subacute course, though it was not different from baseline values at the end of the trial. Significant reduction of platelet aggregation was seen in both acute and subacute conditions with complete or almost complete recovery 36 hours after the last dose. It is concluded that ketoprofen affects platelets with readily reversible inhibition of in vitro aggregation and a slight increase of bleeding time.
Subject
Biochemistry, medical,Cell Biology,Biochemistry,General Medicine
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