Trasylol and Heart Attacks
A drug often given to heart surgery patients to curtail blood loss has been proven to dangerously increase the risk for heart attack.
A study released in January 2006 in the New England Journal of Medicine showed serious side effects associated with Trasylol, including a 50% increased risk of Trasylol heart attack.
Dr. Dennis Mangano of the Ischemia Research and Education Foundation led the study to determine Trasylol’s heart attack risk.
The results showed a much higher risk of Trasylol heart attack for the patients who were given Trasylol as compared with those who took alternatives or no medication at all. Besides a 50% increased risk of Trasylol heart attack, patients given Trasylol faced a nearly doubled risk for kidney failure and a substantially higher risk for stoke.