Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis

What is secondary dyslipidaemia?

What is the effect of statins?

What is atorvastatin?

What are the clinical uses of statins?

Name some other actions of statins

What are fibrates?

What is the effect of bile acid binding resins?

What are the side effects of resins?

What is haemostasis?

what is thrombosis?

What three main factors can lead to thrombosis?

what substances induce platelet activation?

What is a thrombi?

What is the main anticlotting factor? And what is it's co factor?

What is clot lysis mediated by?

What causes the clot formation?

What do anticoagulants treat?

Describe heparin

Describe the effects of warfarin

Name some antiplatelet drugs

What is the effect of aspirin?

What is the effect of cloridogrel?

What are the effects of epoprostenol?

What do antiplatelet drugs treat?

What do thrombolytic drugs treat>?

Name thrombolytic drugs

What is the effect of streptokinase?

What do thrombolytic drugs do?

describe tissue plasminogen activator?

Describe the stages that lead to athersclerosis

Describe the exogenous lipoprotein transport pathway

Describe the endogenous pathway for lipid transport

How does LDL promote thrombosis?

What is dyslipidaemia?

What is primary dyslipidaemia? Give an example?