Heart HQ: Aspirin and Aortic Valves
Heart HQ - Episode 7: Aspirin as Primary Prevention and Bicuspid Aortic Valves
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 317
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 317 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind the medical trivia FFFF
Pharm 101: Aspirin
ACEM Primary Pharmacology of Aspirin: the Pharmacokinetics; Pharmacodynamics; Clinical uses; Adverse effects
Salicylate Poisoning
Salicylate poisoning: mechanisms of toxicity: acid-base disturbance, uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation, disordered glucose metabolism
Aspirin
Aspirin: antiplatelet agent; irreversible acetylation of cyclooxygenase -> blocks the production of prostaglandins from membrane phospholipids -> inactivation of platelet aggregation by arachidonic acid and collagen.
Hyperammoniacal Encephalopathy
A 7 year-old girl was brought to hospital with lethargy, irritability and vomiting. Aspirin administered with viral illness. Reye syndrome.