“What medications do heart stent patients take?”

typically patients who have stent need to be on antiplatelets
9certain blood thinners) like aspirin and Plavix or one of the newer antiplatelets like Prasugrel. they also need to have a better control of their blood pressure and cholesterol medications.

Heart patients may take a variety of medicines, related to their underlying cause of coronary artery disease. They may take a lipid lowering medicine called a statin (i.e. Lipitor). The heart valve stent itself requires blood thinners, taken for a period of time (example is aspirin and either Plavix or Brillinta)