"Silent" MIs Outweigh "Scary" Bleeds, FDA Concludes In Effient Review
• By Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
FDA's approval of Lilly/Daiichi Sankyo's antiplatelet agent Effient (prasugrel) reflects the review team’s willingness to look past the increased risk of bleeding – a dramatic and viscerally alarming adverse event, though understandable due to the medical setting – to see the less immediately apparent benefit of a reduction in a type of cardiac event that includes so-called "silent MIs" that have no visible clinical presentation.
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