KROK 1 2013 – Question 11 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A 60-year-old patient with a long history of stenocardia takes coronarodilator agents. He has also been administered acetylsalicylic acid to reduce platelet aggregation. What is the mechanism of antiplatelet action of acetylsalicylic acid?
- A. It has membrane stabilizing effect
- B. It enhances the activity of platelet adenylate cyclase
- C. It reduces the activity of cyclooxygenase
- D. It reduces the activity of phosphodiesterase
- E. It enhances the synthesis of prostacyclin
Hint
Ask which platelet-derived mediator promotes aggregation and which step in its synthesis this drug could block.
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