Can aspirin help?

Ashwini Kalantri; Shriprakash Kalantri

doi:10.7554/eLife.35906

Can aspirin help?

Elife. 2018 Mar 21:7:e35906. doi: 10.7554/eLife.35906.

Authors

Ashwini Kalantri¹, Shriprakash Kalantri²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Community Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, India.
² Department of Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, India.

Abstract

Using a combination of aspirin, anti-tuberculosis drugs and steroids may help to reduce the number of strokes and deaths in patients with tuberculous meningitis.

Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; aspirin; clinical trial; human; infectious disease; microbiology; stroke; tuberculosis; tuberculous meningitis.

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MeSH terms

Adult
Aspirin
Double-Blind Method
HIV
Humans
Stroke*
Tuberculosis, Meningeal*

Substances

Aspirin