Conditions: Acute Coronary Syndrome
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Enrollment: 56
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, cross-over study to compare the pharmacodynamic response in subjects with Acute Coronary Syndrome receiving a 10-mg maintenance dose (MD) of prasugrel compared with a 150-mg maintenance dose of clopidogrel, following a 900-mg loading dose (LD) of clopidogrel.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Open label lead-in one time dose of Clopidogrel 900 mg oral tablets (a single or cumulative dose) and 250 mg to 500 mg aspirin loading dose (LD), either orally or intravenously. Patients are then assigned to maintenance dose (MD) prasugrel 10 mg and two placebo tablets, matched to clopidogrel, and 100 mg aspirin, all taken orally once a day for 14 days. Patients cross-over to MD of clopidogrel two 75 mg tablets and one placebo matched to prasugrel and 100 mg aspirin, all taken orally once a day for the next 14 days. arm 2: Open label lead-in one time dose of Clopidogrel 900 mg oral tablets (a single or cumulative dose) and 250 mg to 500 mg aspirin loading dose (LD), either orally or intravenously. Patients are then assigned to maintenance dose (MD) Clopidogrel two 75 mg and one placebo tablet, matched to prasugrel, and 100 mg aspirin, all taken orally once a day for 14 days. Patients cross-over to MD of prasugrel one 10 mg tablet and two placebo tablets matched to clopidogrel and 100 mg aspirin, all taken orally once a day for the next 14 days.

Interventions: intervention 1: Prasugrel intervention 2: Clopidogrel
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Prasugrel 10-mg tablet taken orally as a daily maintenance dose for a 14-day treatment period. intervention 2: Clopidogrel two 75-mg tablets taken orally as a daily maintenance dose for a 14-day treatment period.

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