Eptifibatide - Indications, Dosage, Side Effects and Precautions

•Discontinue in case of serious uncontrolled bleeding, or if emergency surgery or thrombolytic (drugs are used in medicine to dissolve blood clots) therapy is required. Caution should be exercised in patients with liver impairment, plat‍‍‍‍‍‍​​​‍​​​​​​elet counts <100,000 mm3; bleeding in the eye, drugs affecting blood, pregnancy. Check aPTT [activated partial thromboplastin time or ACT(activated clotting time) prior to sheath removal during angioplasty. It may lead to severe kidney impairment, inflammation of blood vessels, bleeding in the eye, acute pericardial inflammation ( inflammation of the covering of the heart)or aortic dissection (splitting of the layers of the aorta leading to formation of outpouchings).