von Willebrand factor molecules cross link and form a net around a blood clot holding it together. Drs. Shahid Nimjee and Gibson discuss a new vWf inhibitor that breaks apart this net & opening closed arteries but leaving a patch of fibrin strands across the site of plaque rupture which would have been dissolved by fibrinolytics potentially causing bleeding. December 4, 2024 Disclosures: TBD
This Week in Medicine®: Dr. Kausik Ray and Dr. C. Michael Gibson Discuss: Review of the Year in Prevention and Lipids December 27, 2022 Listen to Podcast Disclosures: TBD
This Week in Medicine®: Women are under-enrolled in clinical trials. Dr. Martha Gulati and I discuss how to increase participation of women in clinical trials. December 20, 2022 Listen to Podcast Disclosures: TBD
