STEMI guidelines now recommend AstraZeneca's ticagrelor as first-line treatment option

30 August 2012

Anglo-Swedish drug major AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) said yesterday that ticagrelor, its oral antiplatelet medicine, marketed by the company as Brilique in the European Union and Brilinta elsewhere, received a Class I recommendation from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in the revised Guidelines on the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients Presenting with Persistent ST-Segment Elevation (STEMI).

The new blood thinner Brilique, which is still being rolled out in European markets, generated second-quarter sales of $18 million, $12 million of which came from western Europe.

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